But really: once you’ve read a few “vampire” novels, they all start to seem really similar. I wonder why THAT could be? Couldn’t be that vampire novels (like Zombie movies and huge amounts of other artistic creation) is, to a large extent, “derivative?”

We need some SERIOUS copyright reform nowadays — it’s the only way the lawyers/industry bigshots will be able to save ANY kind of “copyright” at all.

They either reform it seriously, or the — rightful — disdain for it continues. It’s a fact.

Personally, I’d think she might have gained some new fans from this (who would probably have bought the finished book), but maybe not.

OH yeah, and remember everybody: p2p == rape!

We know were “AT WAR HERE, PEOPLE!” Our illustrious leader George “Shrubya” Bush made sure of that. What I don’t get is how you can think that fact means that discussion on any other topic should cease. Lemme guess, if everybody isn’t neurotically-obsessed with the continuous no-exit-strategy-whatsoever war-of-the-moment, “Then The terrorists win”.

I can see it now: “Classified ads about free kittens? But, WE’RE AT WAR, PEOPLE!”

Sad, sad, sad.

Uhh, Filesharing == Rape?
I knew you were borderline illiterate, but I didn’t realize you were also psychotic as well.

You didn’t reply to any of my points over on p2pnet, but at least over there you managed to string a few sentences into a halfway coherent recycling of the RIAA “Party line”. Here, you didn’t even manage that. You compare p2p to rape, on the assumption that every form of “lawbreaking” is equivalent, when it’s clearly not.

Copyright law is already riddled with exceptions (The “fair use” upon which you so blithely depend for your “Handle”, among others.)

To put it bluntly, copyright was only intended for a REALLY SHORT TIME — 11 years in the United States. The publishers and record companies managed to bloat that into more than 100 years. Nowadays, people are recognizing THAT for the bullshit that it was and is, and — right or wrong — vast numbers of them can no longer take copyright seriously to any extent.

Y’know what? It’s genuinely hard to blame them, especially when intellectual giants like yourself trot out comparisons to rape.

You don’t post to places like this to “debate” — you just chatter off the same specious, poorly-reasoned drivel over and over and over, and expect to be taken seriously as a result.

So go away now, and get back to creating the stuff that got you that great big award for that “big museum”.

Prostitution?..you whiny bitch?

As for the moronic statement by “typical pirate”, please stop making such an idiot of yourself. It takes time, hard work, and TALENT to write a book, or even a short story. You don’t think artists should make money out of their work because we enjoy our work? What a sorry piece of work you are, and if you are typical of other ‘pirates’ out there it’s no wonder you don’t understand or appreciate artistic endeavor. Perhaps when you grow up….?

I am ashamed of this community I belong to for this.

Wow, you’re an idiot. I didn’t have to read through the whole thing to know that you are simply a retard. “Plundering”? It’s the rights holders that are plundering everything. It’s not plundering unless you make money from it.

A simple solution is a government subsidy to the original creator.

i dont think that you should make such a big fuss about this, you should be thrilled that your the author of these books and how popular and loved they are. Now yes what these people did was a terrible thing, and they should be punished but it isn’t the rest of your fans fault too. Just think about all the people your crushing by not writing this.