4 ms·

If you are going to tell someone how they are doing their passion incorrectly please put in the additional effort to dig up the source you feel like justifies y

If you are going to tell someone how they are doing their passion incorrectly please put in the additional effort to dig up the source you feel like justifies your opinion.

oh_sigh 6y ago
Yes. It is literally just an anecdote about shareware, not a proven system for dealing with piracy. It could lead to more sales, or you could really piss off a troll who has nothing better to do than DDOS your site and try to hack every account you own.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y ago
  It's also the kind of shit that will def find lots of advocates on HN even if the evidence is spotty at best
- wishinghand 6y ago
  > It could lead to more sales, or you could really piss off a troll who has nothing better to do than DDOS your site and try to hack every account you own. This seems more like FUD for nagware than a proven system for not dealing with piracy.
drdeadringer 6y ago
This may not be the article spoken about, but it was what came to my mind as at least being similar to what was described. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/feb/01/paulo-coelho-readers-pirate-books https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/feb/01/paulo-coelho-r...
enumjorge 6y ago
It’s frustrating to see people pushing the narrative that content creators should fully embrace piracy and that anything else is simply wrong. Here you have someone telling us the difficulties they faced as a content creator, and then you have responses from people who are not themselves writers, armchair-quarterbacking the parent poster on what they did wrong. If you have an anecdote that goes against the narrative the fault is apparently still yours. The grand parent commenter made it as easily as possible to buy their book, which is what you’re “supposed” to do, yet that didn’t fix the problem. And somehow the recommended solution to poison the piracy well with basically content marketing for your book is somehow less “antagonistic” than what the gp commenter did.

If you are going to tell someone how they are doing their passion incorrectly please put in the additional effort to dig up the source you feel like justifies your opinion.

oh_sigh 6y ago

Yes. It is literally just an anecdote about shareware, not a proven system for dealing with piracy. It could lead to more sales, or you could really piss off a troll who has nothing better to do than DDOS your site and try to hack every account you own.

X6S1x6Okd1st 6y ago
It's also the kind of shit that will def find lots of advocates on HN even if the evidence is spotty at best
wishinghand 6y ago
> It could lead to more sales, or you could really piss off a troll who has nothing better to do than DDOS your site and try to hack every account you own. This seems more like FUD for nagware than a proven system for not dealing with piracy.

drdeadringer 6y ago

This may not be the article spoken about, but it was what came to my mind as at least being similar to what was described. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/feb/01/paulo-coelho-readers-pirate-books https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/feb/01/paulo-coelho-r...

enumjorge 6y ago

It’s frustrating to see people pushing the narrative that content creators should fully embrace piracy and that anything else is simply wrong. Here you have someone telling us the difficulties they faced as a content creator, and then you have responses from people who are not themselves writers, armchair-quarterbacking the parent poster on what they did wrong. If you have an anecdote that goes against the narrative the fault is apparently still yours. The grand parent commenter made it as easily as possible to buy their book, which is what you’re “supposed” to do, yet that didn’t fix the problem. And somehow the recommended solution to poison the piracy well with basically content marketing for your book is somehow less “antagonistic” than what the gp commenter did.