Whatever: The Fanfic Community Eats One of Its Own and Spits Out The Bones. « Cake Vs. Pie: The Final Conflict | Main | From the "What the Hell? " File » August 12, 2005 The Fanfic Community Eats One of Its Own and Spits Out The Bones Fascinating. The fanfic writer has taken down the original post asking for money, but this being the Internet, people preserved the post, so you can see the original post here on Lee Goldberg's site, along with commentary (Goldberg, who writes media tie-in novels among other things, is not particularly sympathetic to fanfic). But don't kid yourself: Goldberg and Mamatas are the sideshow to the fanfic community pile-on. Which brings up the question of why this particular fanfic writer didn't seem to understand the penalties. What this fanfic-er was planning to do was stupid and wrong, and to some extent she deserved to get stomped.
And you know what? Which is of course exactly what happened: Group approbation at its finest. All I can say is it makes me glad I write original fiction. Posted by john at August 12, 2005 09:05 AM. Pirate Parties International. Elected posts won Officially registered Active, unregistered pirate party No pirate party Member of Pirate Parties International.
Report: Piracy a "global pricing problem" with only one solution. A major new report from a consortium of academic researchers concludes that media piracy can't be stopped through “three strikes” Internet disconnections, Web censorship, more police powers, higher statutory damages, or tougher criminal penalties.
That's because the piracy of movies, music, video games, and software is “better described as a global pricing problem.” And the only way to solve it is by changing the price. Over the last three years, 35 researchers contributed to the Media Piracy Project, released last week by the Social Science Research Council. Their mission was to examine media piracy in emerging economies, which account for most of the world's population, and to find out just how and why piracy operates in places like Russia, Mexico, and India. Their conclusion is not that citizens of such piratical societies are somehow morally deficient or opposed to paying for content. In the meantime, says Karaganis: Pirat Parteit.