This is such a bullshit argument. Are you saying that if a publisher printed an unauthorized version of Lolita and Nabokov got none of the royalties from it he would have had no case because his book is about an adult man having sex with a 12-year old?
no? at what point did i make any statement in regards to the legal aspect of this situation? what i'm saying is exactly what i said and it wasn't an argument either.
i'm personally not gonna argue about the legal validity of any of this, but i am gonna marvel at the gall of people who try to maintain some sort of moral high ground in regards to internet piracy on an internet forum specializing in pirating porn games that were created by developers who more than likely pirated and copied the game engines and assets they used to make them. and when said porn games promote and glorify subject matter that is morally...questionable, to say the least, then it's just all the more ridiculous to me. again, be forreal.
but to play along with your analogy for a second, it would be more akin to dear old Vladimir getting upset at a bookstore for giving out free copies of the next chapter of Lolita two weeks before he was gonna start giving them out for free anyway, and he was mad at that bookstore because he wanted those two weeks to be spent being able to entice more people to pay money to read that chapter early. after all, the book is ultimately completely free, but quite a lot of people pay him to read the next installment right after it's finished, and it would be nice to get more to do the same. so it's unfair to him for that bookstore to deny him the opportunity to do that.
but here's the kicker: if that bookstore didn't carry Lolita when it first started getting published, there probably wouldn't be too many people paying to read it early now, or reading it at all for that matter. in fact, Vladimir wanted that bookstore to carry Lolita and was really proud of himself when they did, because he knew that even if they liked to give out free copies of books as soon as they could, it was a great way to build up the popularity of his. and regardless, the free copies didn't matter much since he couldn't actually sell the book anyway. he could only sell the option to read the next chapter early. but things change, and the book is pretty popular now, and Vladimir feels like he's being robbed of the opportunity to make more money selling that option. he wants people to see that they have to wait two extra weeks and decide to just pay to read it now. he doesn't want people to be able to skip the step where they pay. but what Vladimir doesn't recognize is that the vast majority of the people who do skip that step were never going to pay anyway. if they weren't able to make that skip, they would've just...waited to read it for free.
so nothing was actually lost but the illusion of the opportunity to gain. the people who would be willing to pay, will ultimately pay, whether it be out of convenience, impatience, or just a desire to support an author they enjoy. and then the people who would not be willing to pay, simply never will.
