Another self-entitled fucking Millennial? No, not quite.
This isn't just a lone wolf who decided he could download SEVEN THOUSAND eBooks off Kickass, put 'em on a DVD, and laugh all the way to the bank over EBAY's non-rules.
EBAY policy is that as long as eBooks can be mailed, instead of downloaded, it's legal to sell them. It's part of their "we're JUST a venue" attitude. As well as their "we'll enforce what we feel like enforcing" attitude. Same way smelly panties aren't legal but smelly pantyhose or socks are.
Pretty blatant, huh?
EBAY is saying to authors, "Fuck you all. We'll get 15% of this bootlegger's money, so $2 or $3 is great for us. So what if this item means that the jerk with the iPad or Kindle now has ALL the books he'll ever need in his own lifetime, and will NEVER buy anything. Fuck authors! Hooray technology!"
How lovely, that bullshit about "public license." During the prime years of Hans Demented assholes giving away music on blogs, the notion was a caveat about a "commons" rule trumped copyright. That, or "this is for review purposes only." Here, according to some obscure Communist manifesto somewhere, under "public license" this guy can make royalties from any author's work. Because copyright is COPYWRONG as long as it's not your copyright. As long as somebody isn't stealing YOUR "hard work." You can bet this guy would be raging if somebody was selling the same item at a dollar less.
Notice the "Click here" links? Ha ha ho ho hee hee. This prick doesn't want to give his pimp, EBAY, much of a percentage. Those links are to one of the many "our server is in Russia, fuck you" sites where people can get amazing "bargains" on download books.
Since this DVD is for SEVEN THOUSAND thrillers, if you want non-fiction you go to the "CLICK HERE" site and buy anything you want at the bargain price of 99 cents each.
You remember the "ru" sites where anybody's new album was 99 cents? Amazing! Except eventually these sites fell away because so many other sites emerged offering it all FREEEEEE with malware and spyware.
So this prick either runs the renegade outfit and is using eBay to get more site traffic, or is getting a commission on every "click through" that can be traced to his EBAY ad.
Attention authors: your books should be 99 cents. If you don't agree, too bad. If you DO agree, too bad because there are even more websites saying "FREEEEE." So what do you do? Oh, use the "fame" of being an author to teach brainless Millennials in a high school somewhere at starvation teacher wages. Or sell t-shirts!
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