You wouldn't expect HARRY POTTER fans, who have the I.Q. of 8 year-olds, to understand what COPYRIGHT means, would you? In the 21st Century? When the Internet makes everything FREE? When parasite websites like NEWSER steal and re-write what REAL reporters have written? When people cheer PUTIN and RUSSIA for having piracy download havens beyond the reach of weak DMCA laws? ETC? ETC?
Imagine...Warners doesn't want unauthorized "events" being staged and unauthorized products sold at these events. Why, they might even object if some company manufactures "Harry Potter" Halloween masks and t-shirts because, gasp, Warners wants to maintain quality control and continue to make money off their fluke luck, which helps finance other projects that are riskier.
It's one thing to hold a block party or have a school event...it's another when the big draw is using a copyrighted name to promote it. It's more than just an innocent "fan club" getting together. It's BUSINESS. An amusing line in the article has pouty sulky Pot-heads or whatever they call themselves, running to Mama Rowling for help.
It takes a LOT to get the attention of Rowling or the suits at Warners. They don't nickel and dime. Proof of that can be found on eBay, where the Harry Potter books are routinely being pirated for cheap downloads. Thanks to weak DMCA laws, eBAY is not required to remove these items UNLESS Rowling or her book company send in a complaint. Ebay, pimps that they are, happily take their percentage of the whores.
Let's see how many items are available JUST by typing in "HARRY POTTER" and PDF or EBOOK. Oh, dozens and dozens. ROWLING is going to spend time whining about 99 cent downloads of ALL her books. She could. She could do it for the principle and MORALITY of it. She could do it to help libraries if not her own bank account. She could do it to help all authors, as the more time people spend with pirated books the less they spend on SPENDING MONEY for them legitimately.
It takes major visibility AND a major amount of money to get noticed. That's what happens when 40,000 people attend some bogus "Harry Potter" event where people might charge $10 each just go get in.
And so the people who live in a fantasy world where nobody pays for anything grumble "You ruin our FUN!" and "You Voldemorts!" and "Let's find a way to hack their website and attack them because WE'RE ENTITLED."
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