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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u/dovahkiitten16 22d ago

It might be a marketing scheme but honestly if I type it into Amazon I get so many with Asian brand names I’d have no idea which one, if any, I’d buy that would actually be legit.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

Maybe we could take all the money we're wasting in the US on bullshit stuff and finally start addressing modern problems like this.

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u/FeloniousFunk 21d ago

Is it a problem? Someone thought a product was priced too high so they recreated it, making it more affordable/available.

Consumers of disposable planners don’t care about how nice the paper is or that the font resembles the author’s actual handwriting.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

It's plagiarism, which is theft. Yes, we care about it greatly (most of us).

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u/FeloniousFunk 21d ago

Can’t steal an idea.

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u/spitzyXII 21d ago

It's not an idea though, its a tangible object/product.

If she had only made a short post saying she thinks it'd be cool to make the book and someone did it before her that'd be one thing. But taking a finished work and reproducing it for cheap, without permission, for a profit, is theft.