How simple: type in a title or author, and EBOOK, and you've got shit much lower than what Amazon is charging. The seller, some spic in Florida or Argentina, some cement-head in Romania, some snot in the U.K. simply writes: "Attention eBay, I own copyright, or I own re-sale rights, or this is public domain. PS, you're getting a share so you aren't gonna stop me, are you? Ha ha ho ho hee hee."
OK, the last two lines are missing, but EBAY is happy with the disclaimer. "Duh, we don't know that Fat George Martin or Fatter E.L. James didn't say a spic can dupe their stuff. We sure aren't gonna ask the spic to show us a signed agreement!"
So, one might ask, where's the author to complain? Oh, busy Tweeting stupid shit. "Did you watch Downton Abbey last night? Wanna see what I had for lunch? I'm going for walkies now..."
The publisher? Same insane shit as the RIAA. The RIAA used to have a fake "report piracy" link on their website. They never checked it. Same with the publishers. If you do submit a report, it goes to the assholes the publishers claim they've hired to "police the Internet." A form letter comes back: "Thank you we will take the appropriate action."
Nothing. If you manage to have an e-mail contact at the publisher, and point this out, you get back: "Please cease and desist further contact. We take appropriate action." And don't.
You want to reason with retards? Impossible: "Why not get an intern on your staff to file DMCA's? Why not use a trusted member of the author's fan club? Or someone with a lot of experience with how eBay is run?" "What? Share CONTROL or POWER???"
The message one gets from seeing Interent piracy in so blatant a form, is that the publishing industry is obviously doing very well, thank you. They can afford to feed a few obese authors, and they can afford to over-pay twats in their publicity, finance, trademark and copyright divisions. They mostly aren't even at their desks and never answer e-mail because they're taking two hour lunches and two hour coffee breaks at Starbucks.
All they need is another big fat HBO contract on big fat George R.R. Martin, and they're set. One blockbuster, even with piracy, pays for everything. Right? Don't look and see what happened to the music industry. TV used to have good stuff and not all night of "reality TV" and Kardashians, but because piracy is rampant and duping is easy TV is now full of shit. And publishers? They'll be happy to publish shit like E.L. James the obese retard, and there's plenty of money for all. So let eBay spics carve a chunk for themselves.
You'd think authors would be offended to read an ad saying, "I own copyright" on a book they toiled over. But, no, they're too busy basking in superstardom, and Tweeting vain stupidity. And waltzing over to a school to sign some books and give a pompous lecture. Maybe some of these fat slob authors like Martin and James (both working for the same big corporation) feel guilty about shutting down a few hundred dollars that some needy spic in Argentina needs so she can ooze out another 10 kids.
Authors writing about "truth and beauty" and moral issues ignore some asshole saying "I own copyright?" Amazing. Publishers, well, they'd just as soon sell douche bags as books. It's just a commodity to them. And judging from some of the stinky twats who take big salaries for doing nothing, douche bags should be handed out ASAP.
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