Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

I really like Rogue One when I first saw it, but I made the mistake of watching again immediately after Andor, and the contrast really didn't turn out in Rogue One's favor.

If you want my books to be free for anyone to just grab off the internet and read, I'm all for that, I'll just be expecting you to get yer arse in gear & start *making* the fuckin sandwiches for *me* to grab whenever I'm hungry, that's called mutual aid, ya wee ancap motherfucker, get in the kitchen

worked on me

Blueberry and peach, is it?

I think the tl&dr on all the threads of this is that I don't agree with your contention that I have to dislike book piracy and fanfiction in analogous ways to have a consistent position on the ethics of copyright and I don't think you're convincing me.

I'm not as convinced as you that pirates would simply read something free if they couldn't pirate. There is a limitless supply of free stuff available they could read already. There is a subset at least pirating because they want specific stuff and don't care about paying for it.

No. I have good evidence and argument from many other people, including many writers, that she was wrong about the harms of fanfic, and I am comfortable with idea that copyright protects my work from commercial exploitation by others but not from fan works.

As I said, I believe the writers who say they are so harmed.

Missing "more" in there.

I think there's a disconnect here with treating piracy as a monolith. Book piracy has a much directly negative effect on writers' ability to make money and continue creating then film and TV piracy has on those artists.

Becaue I don't dislike piracy because it violates IP law. I dislike it because it financially harms writers by reducing their sales and likelihood of getting to write more. I believe the writers who say they are so harmed. I don't think fanfic does similar harm.

What if I say that fanfic is good because communities built around enthusiasm for an artist's work are good for that artist and tend to increase the flow of money towards them and piracy is bad because it takes money away from those artists and doesn't build a community that pays for their work?

Dude, every fanfic reader I know in a book-based fandom is buying in multiple editions and formats. Do you have any examples of people in a fanfic to piracy pipeline? Because it goes hard against my experience to conflate the two.

You cannot respect artists at a fundamental level and steal their work.

Sorry, but that's why we hate AI.