I've often seen people abuse the definition of "fanart" to make questionable profits
I've seen people do this too, and to a man they are all complete losers. I mean livin' out of their car, bathing-optional losers. It makes me wonder exactly why they got into the whole "ripping people off" thing, if the payoff is less than minimum wage at McDonalds.
You used to see the same thing with the video bootleggers at conventions, they'd have tables and tables of copies for sale, I mean a lot of capital and labor went into their video bootlegging operation, and if you find out anything about them, you find out they live in a leaky trailer somewhere and can barely pay the rent or gas up their old pickup truck or keep their five dogs fed. Guys, if you're going to steal, at least steal something that will IMPROVE YOUR LIFE.
Part of the mindset is, and this is a real vague theory of mine, but you go to the flea markets in the sticks, and you see a lot of people from agricultural families, who have traditions of picking berries or apples and selling them by the roadside or at the market - the stuff is lying around and you pick it up and sell it. You have chickens, they lay eggs, you sell the eggs. You have dogs, they have puppies, you sell the puppies. You find junk at the dump somebody wants, haul it home and sell it. (You have a lot of corn, people want liquor, why not set up a still?) You find stripped paperbacks at the distributor, you sell 'em at the flea market. If there's income to be generated from something, then do it. If you have some crazy Japanese cartoon or Godzilla movie somebody wants, why not run off a few VHS tapes? What's the harm? Who says I shouldn't? Those fat cats in Washington? That's the mindset. That's my theory anyway. Not that it has anything to do with this discussion, but there ya go.
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I've seen people do this too, and to a man they are all complete losers. I mean livin' out of their car, bathing-optional losers. It makes me wonder exactly why they got into the whole "ripping people off" thing, if the payoff is less than minimum wage at McDonalds.
You used to see the same thing with the video bootleggers at conventions, they'd have tables and tables of copies for sale, I mean a lot of capital and labor went into their video bootlegging operation, and if you find out anything about them, you find out they live in a leaky trailer somewhere and can barely pay the rent or gas up their old pickup truck or keep their five dogs fed. Guys, if you're going to steal, at least steal something that will IMPROVE YOUR LIFE.
Part of the mindset is, and this is a real vague theory of mine, but you go to the flea markets in the sticks, and you see a lot of people from agricultural families, who have traditions of picking berries or apples and selling them by the roadside or at the market - the stuff is lying around and you pick it up and sell it. You have chickens, they lay eggs, you sell the eggs. You have dogs, they have puppies, you sell the puppies. You find junk at the dump somebody wants, haul it home and sell it. (You have a lot of corn, people want liquor, why not set up a still?) You find stripped paperbacks at the distributor, you sell 'em at the flea market. If there's income to be generated from something, then do it. If you have some crazy Japanese cartoon or Godzilla movie somebody wants, why not run off a few VHS tapes? What's the harm? Who says I shouldn't? Those fat cats in Washington? That's the mindset. That's my theory anyway. Not that it has anything to do with this discussion, but there ya go.