For sure but if the goal is to have it not financially benefit the creepshit author, digital isn't a bad way to go. I don't necessarily want Gaiman's boobs in my hands.
SnotFlickerman
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I meant digital volumes. I agree, support your library, do not steal from it.
There's also always piracy arrrrr.
But yes support your local library.
Marjane Satrapi
Similarly, the episode titled "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" was supposed to be "An Elephant Fucks A Pig"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Elephant_Makes_Love_to_a_Pig#Production
Parker and Stone intended to call this episode "An Elephant Fucks a Pig", but changed the title under pressure from Comedy Central.
America will suffer an economic depression and become more isolationist which will allow the depression to continue unabated. Millions die of starvation and exposure.
PerogiBoi here probably has it right. I remember during the heyday of Piracy in the early 2000's strings of sites coming down, Comcast getting busted for illegally using Sandvine to throttle or even outright block bittorrent traffic, Limewire being sued for more money than existed in the entire monetary system of the planet at the time, and corruptly buying out the courts of a foreign country so we could put The Pirate Bay admins in prison.
When people start putting on their piracy hats, they bring out the big legal guns.
EDIT: I will literally never get over Limewire being sued for more money than existed. It proved, without a shadow of a doubt, in my mind, exactly how bullshit the fines for individual copyright violations are. If piracy resulted in more money than exists... you can't prove to me that that is a lost sale. Because there literally was never enough money to have afforded the purchases to begin with.
The short answer is: A bit of both, really.
The longer answer is pretty detailed and would include all the positive things they have done as well as the negative things they have done and the unintended consequences of having so much of the internet "behind" Cloudlfare.
It's sadly not a cut-and-dry situation, they've definitely added some cool, positive stuff to the world. They've also created a mangled mess for a lot of people where they're blocked from accessing certain parts of the web because Cloudflare is throwing down a false-positive and thinks they're a "bad actor."
I would say it's up to individual interpretation if they're doing more "breaking" or more "fixing." For some, far more is broken than fixed, and for others, it's the opposite.
I fall in the "more is fixed than broken" camp, but the "more is broken than fixed" camp have plenty of evidence to support their assertions. I am not really willing to ignore the downsides just because they don't affect me personally.
Funny how bittorrent solved this with a simple distributed hash algorithm...
I guess fuck using what works, amirite?
Pirates are unironically better digital stewards of content and history than media organizations.
What, and let me emphasize this, the fuck?