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

[Yamma Damma]

You know if this guy is so pro looting and riot how about if I loot a Barnes and nobles down in Minneapolis and steal his shit? I wouldn’t even read it I’d just burn it and light my grill on fire with it and roast me some barbecue chicken and beans.

Beans don't burn on the grill.

ClownfishTV chimes in since they covered him in the past.

TL;DW Summary of all the events thus far and gloating about how this is how they both got turned on by their industry pals because they dared to say things they didn't approve of. They want him to come talk on their show but that chance is fatter than him. Kneon suggested Twitter could truly die if they put paywalls up. Twitter is dumb and crazy enough to do it too.

 

[AnOminous]

Hates capitalism, loves copyright. Wendig is peak Woke Corporatist.

Property is theft. Black looters matter! Hey, I didn't mean MY property!

 

[Y2K Baby]

Hates capitalism, loves copyright. Wendig is peak Woke Corporatist.

Copyright is for nigger.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

Property is theft. Black looters matter! Hey, I didn't mean MY property!

Wendig is the quintessential definition of “Rules for thy, not for me”.

 

[GethN7]

Property is theft. Black looters matter! Hey, I didn't mean MY property!

Well, it's hypocritical, but I do see the logic. He decided to be a hack for a corporate product, he obviously wants to continue being a hack for the same because he got paid for it, so he's not going to bite that hand that feeds. It's still hypocritical to otherwise endorse theft so long as it doesn't hurt him, but at least the logic behind the hypocrisy is consistent.

 

[Synthetic Smug]

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?

Vague powerlevel, but the answers to both your questions is 'yes'.

Writing and publishing are no longer prestigious, but are still presented as such. It's not 1950. We have entertainment content coming out of our ears, and it's a case of supply and demand. There's a mystique that melts away rapidly with a little research.

 

[Neil]

View attachment 1370155

Internet Archive Will End Its Program for Free E-Books

The nonprofit has said its National Emergency Library was a public service to people unable to access libraries during the pandemic, but publishers and authors accused it of theft.

www.nytimes.com

Sure would be a shame if everyone just started posting links to free copies of Cuck's godawful books everywhere. Not so people could read them (because no one would ever want to) but just to make him shit himself in anger.

Props to Cuck for helping to make the internet a worse place though, many cows try but few actually succeed at it.

I don't know who this faggot is, I don't care who this faggot is. I won't remember who this faggot is.
All I know is, from now on, I'm going to pirate every single one of his books, share the links, and never waste a second of my time reading them.
The sales of this faggot's garbage writings should never go above single digits, if that, and those single digits should be solely pirates buying them to distribute for free.

 

[Ascendancy0]

"No one will buy my shitty books, time to make the internet as a whole worse! I am very smart!"

Holy fuck. What a sperg. At least this brought everyone together to say "fuck this guy".

 

[Doctor Placebo]

Beans don't burn on the grill.

ClownfishTV chimes in since they covered him in the past.

TL;DW Summary of all the events thus far and gloating about how this is how they both got turned on by their industry pals because they dared to say things they didn't approve of. They want him to come talk on their show but that chance is fatter than him. Kneon suggested Twitter could truly die if they put paywalls up. Twitter is dumb and crazy enough to do it too.

Oh it would be wonderful of Twitter put up paywalls. Even if the company survived, the type of people who would be paying for it would be like Cuck and Film Robert, so the drain on the income of these insufferable people would still be a win.

 

[Cuck Shack]

I don't know who this faggot is, I don't care who this faggot is. I won't remember who this faggot is.
All I know is, from now on, I'm going to pirate every single one of his books, share the links, and never waste a second of my time reading them.
The sales of this faggot's garbage writings should never go above single digits, if that, and those single digits should be solely pirates buying them to distribute for free.

If you value your brain cells, you won't read his books.

 

[Poxy Fuckwit]

Ironic that him taking down Internet Archive helped massive corporations more than it ever did with authors, I'm sure Disney will give him a fat paycheck for his efforts.

 

[cockle]

What I don't get is why Chuck (and the rest of his ilk) are going after IA and not, say, the publisher's that fuck them in the ass with no vaseline and pay so little for said fucking. Surely it'd be better in the long term for all authors if they started to actually stand up for themselves and tell them "fuck you, pay me."

(Granted I've never had anything published, so maybe I'm naive)

Still, fuck this sack of shit and the rest of the faggots that caused this.

 

[AnOminous]

What I don't get is why Chuck (and the rest of his ilk) are going after IA and not, say, the publisher's that fuck them in the ass with no vaseline and pay so little for said fucking.

Because he's a zero talent bootlicker incapable of creating anything on his own.

 

[Spamy the Bot]

View attachment 1370155

Internet Archive Will End Its Program for Free E-Books

The nonprofit has said its National Emergency Library was a public service to people unable to access libraries during the pandemic, but publishers and authors accused it of theft.

www.nytimes.com

Sure would be a shame if everyone just started posting links to free copies of Cuck's godawful books everywhere. Not so people could read them (because no one would ever want to) but just to make him shit himself in anger.

Props to Cuck for helping to make the internet a worse place though, many cows try but few actually succeed at it.

Theft?
Yes, any time one downloads an epub file one kindle copy gets deleted. True story.

Considering Amazon is the monopoly in ebooks at this point they can make books disappear for good. Getting rid of the archives could make us lose culture and knowledge.
Sure it's iffy when it comes to copyright, but wouldn't be an author be glad his writing was read in the first place? I mean sure most stuff now is soulless genre fiction only made for profit anyways.

Pushing copyright bullshit on the Internet is a sure way to make everybody hate you.

 

[nohull]

I wonder why he cared so much. Its not like anyone was buying his books to begin with. I worry what comes next though. Will the media get mad at people archiving their articles so they can't easily stealth edit them?

This is something you see with certain types of musicians too.
Certain "artists" and "writers" (if you can call this moron so) delude themselves into thinking that the reason why they don't make money out of their creations is because there's a huge conspiration to pirate all their stuff.
Do you know what comes next? Making libraries illegal and making copyrights and patents last forever, something that some nutjobs used to advocate for, like Andrew J. Galambos, a crazy narcissistic Randroid.
Copyrights already last the lifespan of the authour plus 70 years, which ends up being 130-140 years on average. Patents last between 2 and 3 decades.
Edit: Saying that's 130-140 on average is perhaps inaccurate, as I came up with that number after considering how many years a person has left after they hit 18, this number perhaps doesn't reflect reality as most writers start their careers at their 40s or 50s.

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.

It isn't piracy, Archive.org pays for its ebooks and only lets you keep them for 14 days and has a limit on how many people can read the book at a time.

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.

He's wrong because Archive.org pays for its ebooks in the first place and it applies the same restrictions that libraries tend to apply.
The legal counterargument is that they work as a library and not as a piracy website.

Thank you so much, Wendig. You've now convinced me that piracy is a good thing.

I used to think that piracy is a morally neutral thing as I don't believe in IP, now I think that a case can be made for it being a good thing.
If you give money to Chuck or an evil corporation like the monopolistic Planeta Group, you're pathetic and a cuck, and you should be humilliated for it.

 

[AnOminous]

Copyrights already last the lifespan of the authour plus 70 years, which ends up being 130-140 years on average. Patents last between 2 and 3 decades.

Copyrights last however long they have to last to keep Mickey Mouse from becoming public domain.

 

[kcbbq]

This post is perfect.

It's not. For about 100 years now books have been printed on shit-quality paper, aside from a minimal number of presentation copies. A book that's read much degrades rapidly. The amount of effort and money it takes to stabilize an older book, printed any time after they stopped using rag paper, is insane. And then, if the book gets around one smoker or even just a bad day of air pollution, all that work can be negated in minutes.

I have irreplaceable books (not because of value, but because they aren't reprinted and most copies have fallen apart) that aren't even that old - 30 years - and the paper is just falling to pieces. Anything old enough to be out of copyright and one of the major public libraries will have scanned their copy. Some things are just decaying away. It's getting to be next to impossible to find a lot of short stories, the original magazines and any compilations are just rotting away.

 

[AnOminous]

It's getting to be next to impossible to find a lot of short stories, the original magazines and any compilations are just rotting away.

In the case of Chuck's absolute garbage, that's actually okay.

 

[kcbbq]

In the case of Chuck's absolute garbage, that's actually okay.

I agree, but some authors are not awful, even if they are walking stereotypes like Randall Garrett. Try and find something with a readable copy of Frost and Thunder, which was published in '79, just before he got encephalitis and spent the last eight years of his life in a coma. There won't be any copies left in 2057 when his 70 years are up. Or 3057 when Disney collectively forgets to keep their copyright fuckery going.

I don't care if he groped all the women, had a douchey beard and mustache, and wore an ascot like the pretentious cunt he was, it was a good story and it's going to just be gone.

 

[Red Hood]

All this talk about looting, but no one would loot a Wendig book unless they ran out of toilet paper.

Speaking of, have many bookstores been looted? I'd like to see numbers on that.