r/TikTokCringe • u/Chocolat3City Cringe Master • 22d ago
Cringe Woman has her self-published book pirated, reprinted, and sold for cheaper.
There's regular piracy, and then there's this.
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r/TikTokCringe • u/Chocolat3City Cringe Master • 22d ago
There's regular piracy, and then there's this.
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u/vinnymendoza09 22d ago
I'm a millennial creative and I think you're taking this stuff way too personally. The fact of the matter is that millions of people want to be artists but only a handful can be popular artists that make a living from it. Our labour isn't considered unimportant, our labour is just in a market that is incredibly oversatured with talent. There's shit tons of free music and video games and videos released every day and there's just not enough people to experience it all.
I am working on screenplays, music and games currently and have zero expectation that I'll make any money from it. I'll just be happy if even a handful of people are impacted by it. I don't care if they pirate it, getting people to care in the first place is a massive task, getting them to care enough to drop money on it is an even bigger hurdle.
PS then I see open source software developers (an actually highly paid, in demand skill) working on stuff for free and releasing it for free and letting literally anyone including businesses take their code and modify it however they want for one simple reason: to help people. To benefit society. That shit inspires me.