Careercow Chuck Wendig / Charles Wendig / TerribleMinds - Terrible author, terrible person, ruined Internet Archive's online library

[Judge Holden]

While I have already said my piece about what a repulsive stain on humanity this creature is, I think its worth leaving this final word of holden wisdom

NEVER trust anyone who goes out of their way to affect a "HAHAHA IM SO GOOFY, DOOFY, KOOKY, AND GEEKY!!! LOLSORANDUM! LOLSOSILLY!" persona like wendig.

Every single specimen who puts on this facade, without any exception, is actively trying to get people to lower their guard around them in order to manipulate them for their own ends, be it for grifting, to get away with shit nobody else would get away with, or simply for personal creeper gratification.

At best these mush mouth shitsacks will use you as a prop to line their own pockets, attack their internet enemies, or climb the hack media ladder. At worst they will straight up rape you or any child that happens to be in the vicinity.

 

[TheShedCollector]

Not just the comicsgate guys but all the IA supporters (many who lean "queer socialist" anyhow). He's the fall guy for all of this because his tweet got the most RTs and it's hilarious. His activism backfired hard on him and he's feeling the effects.

Example A:
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http://archive.fo/wip/1JUHX

Nothing quite like some poetic justice. I didn't know there were a bunch of IA spergs too. It's goddamn beautiful.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Fuck this guy so hard.

Ewww, no thank you.

 

[LordofCringe7206]

Chuck is officially entering spergout mode.

SPOILER ALERT: He did not fuck off to go listen to some birds.

 

[Creep3r]

SPOILER ALERT: He did not fuck off to go listen to some birds.

Implying this social media addict ever logs out of Twitter. Also I find it amusing that he thought he was trending because people thought he was dying from Covid-19. Only time Twitter gives a shit if someone has Corona is if they're actually famous Chucky. Or does he still think he's a bigshot?

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

When will this tard stop being a shitbag?

 

[Captain Ahab]

Ever noticed how the vast majority of modern male writers are complete soy fags? Is it because only soy boys are still retarded enough to think they can make a living off writing in the age of movie streaming and YouTube? Or is it because publishers refuse to work with anyone who could be threatening to their SJW status quo?

 

[Pina Colada]

I didn't know you could burn e-books until now. Fuck Chuck.

 

[BubbleButt]

Fuck you Chuck Wendig you fucking nigger.

I hope he chokes and dies on the three dollars of compensation he's missing out on.

 

[Pickle Dick]

Horrowcow tag when?

 

[andr0id psycho sho(ker]

Horrowcow tag when?

More like terrorist for trying to threaten people online to get shut down. Now if he had a irl shit fetish (not entirely out of the question), horrorcow would be more fitting

 

[Doctor Placebo]

how isn't this "emergency library" just piracy though? like someone explain to me the legal counter argument because there's nothing in the times article and this seems like an obvious call for the court. also how is wendig involved? times article doesn't mention him.

Well a lot of the books were public domain, and some of the books that authors were throwing a temper tantrum about weren't even uploaded, but they doubled down anyway. But more than anything it's the absolute hypocrisy of people who constantly complain on Twitter about how capitalism is bad and this or that service should be free throwing a shitfit when they have to deal with the same thing musicians have been for decades.

As others have pointed out, when it comes to the arts, we're basically in a mass patronage system right now, not because of some planned ideological support for piracy, but due to the near impossibility of properly enforcing copyright laws with the technology that exists. People pay for the stuff they like well enough to support the creator. In that regard, if you actually make work people love, then more exposure will help you because more people will want to patron you. If you make work that turns people off then it will hurt you because people who get exposed to your works won't buy them based on something arbitrary like cool cover art or being official fanfiction for an extremely popular franchise. But that's all academic because poor Cuck's books only got 12 views. People don't even want to read his plot blurbs.

I edited "shitty work" to "work that turns people off" because I don't want to equate quality too heavily popularity. Especially considering how well Cuck's Star Wars books sold.

 

[Inflatable Julay]

Chuck Wendigo is a faggot bitch

 

[BrunoMattei]

I hope he chokes and dies on the three dollars of compensation he's missing out on.

I hope he gets a spear shoved up his and out his mouth Cannibal Holocaust style.

 

[Laughingjoke2]

Fuck you Chuck Wendig you fucking nigger.

Hey his wife would actually fuck him if he was a nigger.

 

[Fareal]

I found one of his Star Wars books abandoned in a hospital bedside locker once. I was bored, so I read it.

He deserves necklacing

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Did someone downloaded the e-book archive before they took it down?, i hope so, shit writers and intellectual hacks deserve to have their "knowledge" to be pirated.

Pretty much everything he's written, including his newest, is up at LibGen anyways.

https://b-ok.org/s/chuck%20wendig

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

I took a look at some of the profiles who were supporting Chuck in his pinned tweet, and they're the exact kind of person you'd suspect.
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[CIA Nigger]

Well a lot of the books were public domain, and some of the books that authors were throwing a temper tantrum about weren't even uploaded, but they doubled down anyway. But more than anything it's the absolute hypocrisy of people who constantly complain on Twitter about how capitalism is bad and this or that service should be free throwing a shitfit when they have to deal with the same thing musicians have been for decades.

As others have pointed out, when it comes to the arts, we're basically in a mass patronage system right now, not because of some planned ideological support for piracy, but due to the near impossibility of properly enforcing copyright laws with the technology that exists. People pay for the stuff they like well enough to support the creator. In that regard, if you actually make work people love, then more exposure will help you because more people will want to patron you. If you make work that turns people off then it will hurt you because people who get exposed to your works won't buy them based on something arbitrary like cool cover art or being official fanfiction for an extremely popular franchise. But that's all academic because poor Cuck's books only got 12 views. People don't even want to read his plot blurbs.

I edited "shitty work" to "work that turns people off" because I don't want to equate quality too heavily popularity. Especially considering how well Cuck's Star Wars books sold.

A lot were not public domain (Project Gutenberg covers this realm) but were more or less out of print and forgotten about. Copyright laws unfortunately hold for far longer than the printing lifespan of books do. Sure there was some stuff quite clearly still in print up there such as Game of Thrones and at least one Harry Potter book, but there were vast amounts of old forgotten about books up there.

Until the National Emergency Library stunt which was the lifting of the borrowing restrictions, archive.org had books borrowable on a "one at a time" basis just like a real physical library. The only people pushing against it were a few publishers and authors who wanted to ensure they made every last cent from their work from a broken system. Then they lifted it because of the lockdowns, libraries were for it, and publishers or hack authors like Chuck Wendig were mad. That's why Archive.org's blog during this has mostly consisted of testimonials as they tried to unsuccessfully beat highly paid lawyers and lobbyists with "think of the children" style appeals.

 

[Spedestrian]

EDIT: I'm fucking exceptional, apparently the beef was over Internet Archive removing the restrictions that made it so that only one person could access a book at a given time. The rest of my post still stands.

how isn't this "emergency library" just piracy though? like someone explain to me the legal counter argument because there's nothing in the times article and this seems like an obvious call for the court. also how is wendig involved? times article doesn't mention him.

This faggot produces absolute shit tier comic books and deserves to get run down by a truck of peace. But I think on this occasion he's right. As a non-expert on copyright I don't see why he's wrong.

A normal library if it wants to loan out 300 books, needs to buy 300 books. If someone doesn't bring it back, they have to buy another book. Making infinite copies for free and letting people keep them forever without paying the authors, seems to be a pretty clear case of copyright infringement to me. Maybe I'm missing something.

According to this blog post by the Internet Archive they were using a "controlled digital lending" system that other libraries use to legally lend out digital copies of physical books. It's basically crazy DRM designed so that each digital copy of a book can only be read by one person at a time, just like a physical library. If a library wants to check out multiple digital copies of a book at a time then they need to legally own/purchase multiple copies of it.

I'm sure there are ways to bypass the DRM to create illegal copies of the book, but that's true for physical library books as well. It might be easier to run steal_books.exe than it is to sit in front of a copier/scanner trying to copy an entire book two pages at a time, but aside from that there's really no difference between lending out a single copy of a physical book and a single copy of a digital book. As I mentioned this is a completely legal system that physical libraries have been using for years, not some janky under the table Pirate Bay shit where they're handing out infinite DRM-free PDF copies of a book without any oversight.

Basically the issue is that dumb fucking boomers who don't understand technology are assuming that a completely legal system of DRM-enforced digital book lending is piracy when it actually isn't. It's a system that was designed to bring physical libraries into the digital age and tons of real libraries are already using it. Authors and publishers aren't being cheated out of sales, each digital copy of a book needs to be legally owned and can only be checked out to one person at a time.

tl;dr - It's legal because it uses a DRM system that works just like a physical library (one legally owned book = one reader at a time). Fuck the boomers, kill them all. Also check out your local library and see if they offer digital lending, it's based and literacypilled.