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.

I like to be thrown straight into to the thick of action wheather that be tension, action, conflict whatever.

The opening was just words and explanation, tension, action, conflict can still be rising even though it is laid on a plate.

You want the character to be defined by there very own character not explained like a user guide.

I find it fascinating that the “social” web has created (or perhaps empowered) a culture of looters who feel a sense of “moral” entitlement to the intellectual property of others. If anyone among this group of commenter’s can write a better book, then do so. If you feel that you have been tricked by the clever marketing of sub-standard literature in the past, then learn to use reason and you won’t be so easily duped. If you don’t like an author, don’t read their books. But don’t mistake someone else’s work as being yours or “public” by entitlement. Being able to appreciate a work or being a “fan” doesn’t make it yours. Being able to see the flaws of a work or being a “critic” doesn’t make it yours. In either of those scenarios the only thing that is yours is your own opinion.

File sharing without the file creators consent is stealing. This is known and understood clearly by the commenters who attacked the character of the author directly. They know that there is no rational argument that can be made to support their position, therefore character attacks are the only recourse left to them.

With the advent of file sharing there have been great stride forward in online collaboration by those who can create and produce. There has also been a greater demand from those who contribute nothing for the works of those that create and produce. If you are quick demand that all intellectual property that you did not produce be made public, try producing a work of your own. You will see how quickly the “public” becomes anyone who is not you.

There are those who generously share the works of their minds and we are all made better for it. But no one has the right to demand the willing (or unwilling) surrender of intellectual property from those who do not wish to share their works, or who wish to charge for the time and effort that was taken at the creator’s expense.

I challenge any of the “critics” and “fans” here to write a book (even if it is on an “unoriginal” topic such as vampires), find someone who will publish and edit it, and then give it away for free in the name of being “social.” Then, look back at your time and efforts and ask yourself honestly if your time has no value, your work has no worth, and the product of your ideas has no price.

I also have to agree with the people who say “Now she will make NO money!” That is the fact of life: anything is available on the internet… you just accept that, put your thing out anyway (without DRM, without limitations, etc) and TRY TO MAKE SOME MONEY!

LOL. ROFL. LMAO. BLAH BLAH. I can’t think of anymore ways to emphasize how ridiculous your comment is:

i thought books were written to inspire people……what if the lord of the rings were copyrighted,there could not have been any orcs

ARE YOU SERIOUS? Of course LOTR is copyrighted! Very few widely published books aren’t copyrighted. In fact, there was a huge issue with his book being published in America by someone who wanted to circumvent the copyright (theorizing it was only British) and Tolkein’s American fans were the ones who pressured that publisher to cease.

And as unfortunate as your “idealism” suggests, authors do have to eat – at some point I hear. Then again, you’re a total idiot if you think LOTR was published like a damn Wikipedia article intended only to inspire and free for all use.

No one can control cultural data flows. Not any ‘author’ or ‘creator’, nor any corporation or council.

All licensing (copyright, copyleft, or what have you) is an attempt to congeal information, an exercise in the attempted exercsion of control. The licensors place themselves into an authoritarian role that then lets them think that they can dictate the terms of use of the particular information in question (be it a story, or a song, or what have you). And why? Why do some feel they have a right to assert control over these data streams, to impose their ‘license’ onto others?

Responsibility for your fellow man requires an egalitarian positioning that does not privilege one over the other. As soon as someone attempts to impose a license, there is no longer any fellow men, but only slaves and masters.

Surely you can dream up other ‘structured solutions’ that would support your ‘fellow man’ that don’t involve the shackles of intellectual property?

And that copy is riddled with DRM.

http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/pdf/midnightsun_partialdraft.pdf

i think artists should earn some money, as it’s not often they are able to make a good new product. You probably get some money every month, but they don’t. They get a lot of money once in a while, IF their art/work was liked.

Still, I would rather have real books than read it on a screen.
Music on the other hand, I don’t really want these plastic bricks. Stop making them, and sell me music files with quality and no limitation in an easy and fair way.

Any anti-piracy outfits listening?

She knows that those reading this leak are going to trash it like no tomorrow on the net, because her writing is simply TERRIBLE.

Her books involve a mary sue as a main character, there is never any character progression, and the stories are improbably at best. I’m a fantasy buff, I read Dresden, Anita Blake, I can put my disbelief on stand by. However when there is an “OMG I LOVE YOUZ FOR NO REASON LOL!!!” plot device, that literally drives the story, but makes no sense, WHY SHOULD I CARE? WHY SHOULD I SPEND MY MONEY ON YOUR DRIVEL?

Honestly, the author should be happy that thousands of 12 year old girls were willing to beg their moms to buy the book.

Oh and by the way, I don’t see what you people are talking about. She looks like she’s in her mid-40′s in that picture.

/Rant

I’m sorry, but in my opinion, this is a ludicrous argument. Copyright protects the artist, not the “authoritarian” media monoliths. If it weren’t for copyright, Time-Warner and all the rest of the gargantuas would happily be plundering artists’ work with no recompense to the artists. Consider the decades of musicians and songwriters who languished in poverty while the publishing companies made millions off their work. Is that really what you want to return to? Is that your idea of utopia?

Or do you really think it’s the end of the big media era? Okay, then I propose that the next logical progression would be a bunch of small pirate media outlets plundering and appropriating the artist’s work. Wow, some improvement.

The blind and poorly-reasoned desire to eradicate an imperfect form of artists’ rights (copyright) seems to me like nothing more than a confused rush to anarchy. Freedom comes with responsibility for your fellow man, or is that just not a narcissistic enough sentiment these days?

I’m happy to concede, by the way, that the media conglomerates have had consumers by the gonads for years — and, yeah, I’m THRILLED to see some of that control weaken. But what about the independent artist (who’s producing most of the interesting work these days? Does she have to give up all artistic control and any hope of getting paid for her work because of your antipathy and paranoia for big media?

Instead of just assuming that destroying everything is going to create a better world full of free stuff for you, how about coming up with structured solutions that acknowledge that we all have to give a little and take care of each other to get a little back?

I can understand if it was some kind of copy sent out to say, a publisher that got leaked.

Otherwise it aint even the “trusted individuals” fault. Its her own.

I write music, and if I am (key word here) *stupid* enough to give a unfinished project to people and it ends up on the web, who’s fault is that?

Personally, I wouldn’t care, but hey… I’m not a selfish ignorant twat.

And yeah one less “vampire” novel is a good thing anyways. LOL

MD

“I have a good idea of how the leak happened as there were very few copies of Midnight Sun that left my possession and each was unique.”

Though she later states that “Due to little changes I made to the manuscript at different times, I can tell when each left my possession and to whom it was given”, she is nonetheless essentially employing a low-level form of what’s referred to as natural language watermarking, wherein each copy of the text is unique and thus the source of the leak is easily identifiable.

Those who facilitate these leaks should thus take the greatest care in making sure that they cannot be individually linked back to the leak in question.

See the following text for further suggestions on possible precautions to take:

http://www.dizzy.ws/security.protocol.for.ebook.production.txt

Destroy copyright, copyleft, or any other attempt at exercising authoritarian control over information, but do so safely.