I mean, there are asshole organizations who get grant money, or something, and they want to show that they're doing something. So they TWEET about some utterly useless topic, and NOBODY gives a rat's ass.
Isn't this lovely? It reminds me of an ACTUAL NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE: "Nose Flute Used to Awaken Tongans."
As the late, and now obscure Jack Paar used to say, "I KID YOU NOT."
Somehow the New York Times thought it was important to run a NEWS ITEM about how Tongans are awakened.
Likewise, some group called the IFRRO is making good money running a "full house" seminar for..."authors" who happen to be from the Ivory Coast. Lovely. "Give us a grant, we are doing GOOD work..."
How very fortunate for the IFRRO that IVORIAN AUTHORS have some place to go for a lunch. What CLEAN tablecloths. What a nice way to spend some time away from Boko Haram, Kim Jong-Un, Ebola and little things like Internet piracy.
Good for the IFFRO. But why is this organization narrowly concerned with IVORIAN AUTHORS and not ALL AUTHORS?
The IFFRO Tweeted something or other about copyright. Does this mean that they have concerns BEYOND the world of IVORIAN AUTHORS?? You can't tell from the number of LIKES this one got:
Who are YOU, Michael Healy, and how did you get the attention of the IFFRO, and why is it so meaningless? People seem to have a good time sitting down in front of clean table cloths, don't they? They LOVE having meetings. They LOVE flying to places and having conferences. Meanwhile, some jerk on eBay sells 500 (yes, 500) bootlegs of ONE title at $8 each. YOU do the math.
Why isn't there an RIAA for the book publishing world? There are bootleggers on the Net, and on eBAY, who routinely steal from EVERY book publisher. Just as the major record labels don't always go after a torrent or a forum, but rely on the RIAA, individual authors and publishers should have a BIG GUN to blast away a parasite who abuses everybody.
Where is the BPPB? That's BOOK PUBLISHERS PIRACY BRIGADE? There should be an organization to tell the smug pricks over at eBay, "Suspend this seller. This seller has NO agreement with ANY publisher, and WE SO STATE."
As it is, if a seller is bootlegging 100 authors, and five of them complain, eBay will shrug and say, "Well, the other 95 authors MIGHT have agreements with this Sri Lankan slimeball. We don't know. And we are under NO legal obligation to find out." That's why the BPPB is needed. It's needed to say "On behalf of ALL the major publishers, we don't ASK for, we DEMAND a takedown."
Yeah, IFRRO, how fortunate for you and your IVORIAN authors. It's time for the so-called intelligent and smart authors and publishers to use a few letters of the alphabet in a way that will do a LOT of good. Like, the BPPB. THE BOOK PUBLISEHRS PIRACY BRIGADE.
Ask me to be a part of it, and I'll say YES. Because CRAPATHY stops HERE.
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