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Sometimes, however, mobs form. Posses meet up outside a hated website and hit the owners with barrages of venomous email. If a site has a forum or a Facebook page, they try to take over. If it’s supported by ad money, they might launch a campaign against the advertisers, as happened in 2010 with Cooks Source Magazine–a New England site brought down by web users for cavalierly stealing content.
If all of this fails to satisfy the mob’s thirst for blood, they might take their anger directly to the website’s landlord, the hosting company, with burlap bags filled with DMCA take-down notices the host can’t afford to ignore.
The people who were stupid enough NOT to know they had given their publishers permission to loan their books really should be put on life support. I don't see how they are smart enough to even breath on their own. Sure it might have been a shock to see your work up there at first and I do suppose a knee-jerk reaction might be anger. As a writer paid from time to time for my work, I can see that.
But I know my contracts.....I know who ends up owning the code or the words I write before I write it. I also am smart enough to copyright it with the proper device.
The owner of this site is much more forgiving than I am. I would show up at THEIR house, with the proper permits and a sign stating that the person at such and such an address had ruined my life. Maybe for just a day, but I would get my point across. There is a time where we all have to learn that we are not anonymous or bullet-proof on the internet.
He can also grant their wishes, and not make their books available on his site.
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But I know my contracts.....I know who ends up owning the code or the words I write before I write it. I also am smart enough to copyright it with the proper device.
The owner of this site is much more forgiving than I am. I would show up at THEIR house, with the proper permits and a sign stating that the person at such and such an address had ruined my life. Maybe for just a day, but I would get my point across. There is a time where we all have to learn that we are not anonymous or bullet-proof on the internet.