/lit/ - Literature

>>7133591
Support authors til they die, after that your 100 fine.
I buy my pinecone but pirate my steinbeck

>>7133591
classcuck detected

>>7133591
CULTURE IS FREE ASSHOLE, OCCUPY WALL STREET NOW, PROLETARIAT, 1% GET OUT REEEEE

I pirate because I like to have my cake and eat it too. I do feel schadenfreude seeing people complain about piracy and adblocking though.

I more or less agree. I think artists should get a job, and make their art on free time. Why shouldn't a writer be a lit professor, or at least a journalist?

>>7133874

>thinks journalists should exist
>thinks people should labor uselessly for wages

embarrassing

>>7133880
You're right. People shouldn't work for wages. That's why I don't pay for their work. :^)

>>7133867
Adblocking's essential for me. I get that sites need revenue, but so many of the adverts are auto-playing resource-hogging nightmares and my computer's pretty old. Browsing becomes pretty unworkable.

>>7133591
Because they're good at dancing or writing, on account of having worked at it, and you're almost certainly shit.

>>7133968
If they're good at it, they had a passion for it, because it's impossible that someone would work their ass off for something they hate unless they had to.

So, it was fun all the way and they shouldn't get paid.

Checkmate, artcucks.

Stealing is ugly.
Walking in to a book shop and purchasing a beautiful book is not.

>>7134167
I buy from charity shops, so I guess I steal from the starving authors but give to starving orphans.

>>7134162
You have never written. Most artists equalize writing with torture. It may be a compulsion but that doesn't mean it's enjoyable. It's work.

>>7133591
>he doesn't order in books from the desk and accrue loyalty points
>he doesn't even have a gold membership card
And you think you deserve to post on my /lit/?

>>7133671
I'm the opposite, I think people alive are placating to the social trends too much by trying to start new ones, I only buy dead or dying people. Get your affairs in order faggots.

>>7134267
>I only buy dead or dying people.
I love that phrase. It sounds like something from a Delilo novel.

>>7134167
Equating internet sharing with stealing is pretty disgusting. I like to support artists, musicians, and authors I like. It is the publishers and record companies I refuse to support.

>>7134167
You've never read a book in your life. Can you please stop being a poseur on /lit/?

>>7133591

Exactly OP, why should I support some author who thinks their feels matter but not mine? At least Nabokov amazes people with his writing. What do modern writers do? "A searing critique of vapidity, consumerism, alienation..."

I buy all my ebooks for my Amazon Kindle because money means nothing to me.

I will pirate everything that I can find (I search for everything extensively to dl, Books, music, movies...)

This is what everybody is already doing/will do

How is this even a question

>>7133880
Not uselessly, but, you know - productively...
And while I can get any criticism on journalists, there is no better alternative yet.

I pirate as much as I can to hasten the arrival of post-capitalism.

>>7134644
you should buy as much as you can then
learn you're accelerationism

>>7134644
There will NEVER, EVER be post-capitalism. Just a lot of dead poors.

>>7134668

You should read more history.

>>7133874

That doesn't really make sense. How do you expect someone to produce something masterful at 10 hours of work a week?

All so you can have it for free. Literary fiction is supported by funding, prizes, and university positions, but it seems bizarre to say that's how it should be simply because you now have the ability to read their work electronically.

Presumably you pay to listen to musicians, to see actors perform, to watch a film, to go to an art gallery etc. Why should literature alone be free?

Dancing, writing and art produces money via sales. They are producing a commodity to sell.

If they can sell it why shouldn't they make money?

>>7134690
I like to call it "Dead poor"story, myself

Read The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer

>>7134723
Absolutely #FUCKINGDROPPED

>>7133867
>schadenfreude
doesn't mean that

>>7134732
Yes, it does?
>they are complaining about their revenue being reduced
>you are enjoying their suffering

>>7134737
The second sentence ending with "though" doesn't make it sound like that was what they were trying to say

I swear /lit/ gets dumber by the day.

Jesus fucking Christ.

>>7134768
The ride never ends, mate, the ride never ends

>>7134309
Cheeky rusemaster,
I was just reading a book in German.

>>7134162
>if its was fun they shouldnt get paid :DD
>implying all artists find their work fun
>implying there arent scientists, manual laborers, etc. who also enjoy their job
>implying people shouldnt get paid just because they enjoy their field of work anyway

>>7134267
>being this much of a clueless degenerate
>missing the point this badly
>being this stupid
>not killing yourself

>>7134768
Who /v/ here?

>>7133591
It is only morally right to support authors who were morally sound themselves and through their work made us all more human.

>>7133591
Full Communism Now.

>>7134889

>>7134892
>Muh pie in the sky philosopher
Please stop pretending Stirner means anything to anyone except /lit/.

I was presented with a moral quagmire and I replied with my own opinion.

>>7134968
>wrote the words 'made us all more human' in full sincerity
>expected a dignifiying response

>>7133591
if you cultivated such a talent to the point where people were willing to pay you for it, you'd change your tune.

Yeah because artists are the ones we should stick it too in society