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Originally Posted by xenigo
Interesting explanation Forkbeard. I was not aware there was a subset of blogging culture that blatantly disregards laws that would otherwise seek to protect their very profession.
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It's important to understand it's not a profession to most of these people. Most of them don't have any hope, prayer, interest, or expectation of ever making a dime; a few of them have ads and affiliate links and think they might get rich someday, but no comprehension of the traffic scale required before they'll be able to quit their day job. For most, it's a hobby or something they do "for visibility" or "just for fun".
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Originally Posted by xenigo
But this... this is just crazy IMO. It's like ignorance gone wild. It's like they're in their own little bubble, their own little self-righteous circle-jerk content-theft universe.
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Also important to be clear: this is not ignorance for the most part. They
know there is a thing called copyright, they just reject it, as incompatible with their values and needs. For the most part, they genuinely
believe the part where you're a stupid-head if you put something on the internet without the expectation that it will be widely recopied and shared. (Looking at things objectively, they have a point about that one -- content owners hate it, but the fact of such copying is objectively true, and acting surprised and butthurt about it makes rights-holders look dimwitted at best.)
But it's the
sense of outraged discovery in your post that made my jaw drop and still has it on the ground: compared to, say, the adult business, theirs is not a "little bubble" or a "little universe". Their subculture, measured by number of websites or by souls who believe in their ethics and bedamned to the law, is
huge.
In fact, the blogging culture is so big -- and the amount of traffic it has at its fingertips is so large, although dwindling these days, as social networks wax and blogs wane -- that lots of adult webmasters and programs have been working with it successfully for a long time. This has upsides and downsides, and the fact that they will never respect intellectual property in a corporate way is -- from a corporate perspective -- definitely a downside. But it's totally not news.
And now, I think I am going to go start a thread about how astonished I am to discover pictures of overflowing toilets on 4chan.
