Magic Lantern Moth
@magiclanternmoth.bsky.social
⚧ she/her, 28, appreciator of da fine arts
You’ve shared multiple unauthorized screencaps from the show The Simpsons which could harm the profits of the copyright holder.
Funny how you wanna be a bootlicker so bad until it comes time to follow your own principles.
Funny how you wanna be a bootlicker so bad until it comes time to follow your own principles.
November 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
You’ve shared multiple unauthorized screencaps from the show The Simpsons which could harm the profits of the copyright holder.
Funny how you wanna be a bootlicker so bad until it comes time to follow your own principles.
Funny how you wanna be a bootlicker so bad until it comes time to follow your own principles.
Sharing copyrighted material unaltered is not Fair Use.
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Sharing copyrighted material unaltered is not Fair Use.
Did you get consent from Nine Inch Nails to use their copyrighted logo? I notice your profile also shares copyrighted material from shows like The Simpsons, did you know you’re infringing on copyright law with that?
November 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Did you get consent from Nine Inch Nails to use their copyrighted logo? I notice your profile also shares copyrighted material from shows like The Simpsons, did you know you’re infringing on copyright law with that?
No it isn’t, you’re reproducing someone’s trademarked logo for self-promotion. Should I report you to the cops or whatever?
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
No it isn’t, you’re reproducing someone’s trademarked logo for self-promotion. Should I report you to the cops or whatever?
By the way I notice you’re using copyrighted art as your profile picture, did you pay the artist for a license for that? Did you also pay Nine Inch Nails for a license to reproduce their logo? You‘re infringing on multiple copyrights on your account in one image alone.
November 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
By the way I notice you’re using copyrighted art as your profile picture, did you pay the artist for a license for that? Did you also pay Nine Inch Nails for a license to reproduce their logo? You‘re infringing on multiple copyrights on your account in one image alone.
I actually don’t have to do that but keep whining about how much you want to criminalize archive.org, bootlicker
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I actually don’t have to do that but keep whining about how much you want to criminalize archive.org, bootlicker
Yeah. Now what if I think the entire world should have access?
November 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Yeah. Now what if I think the entire world should have access?
Glad somebody else is watching this to affirm that I'm not just hallucinating its existence. It's great.
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Glad somebody else is watching this to affirm that I'm not just hallucinating its existence. It's great.
Maybe other authors should try writing books that are well received then if they want commercial success.
If they're viewing art as a get-rich-quick scheme then I think any potential audience will sense their lack of passion and it will contribute to a lack of success.
If they're viewing art as a get-rich-quick scheme then I think any potential audience will sense their lack of passion and it will contribute to a lack of success.
November 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Maybe other authors should try writing books that are well received then if they want commercial success.
If they're viewing art as a get-rich-quick scheme then I think any potential audience will sense their lack of passion and it will contribute to a lack of success.
If they're viewing art as a get-rich-quick scheme then I think any potential audience will sense their lack of passion and it will contribute to a lack of success.
I'm an avid physical media collector, and? I have shelves full of Blu-rays, vinyl records, books, etc.
I'm passionate about the accessibility and preservation of art because I'm an enthusiast and I believe the world is enriched by access to our collective cultural legacy.
I'm passionate about the accessibility and preservation of art because I'm an enthusiast and I believe the world is enriched by access to our collective cultural legacy.
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I'm an avid physical media collector, and? I have shelves full of Blu-rays, vinyl records, books, etc.
I'm passionate about the accessibility and preservation of art because I'm an enthusiast and I believe the world is enriched by access to our collective cultural legacy.
I'm passionate about the accessibility and preservation of art because I'm an enthusiast and I believe the world is enriched by access to our collective cultural legacy.
ebooks have been a thing since at least the '90s, Adobe launched the PDF format in 1993 and the EPUB format was launched in 1999. You never needed a Kindle to read ebooks, and even then 2007 was pretty early into Sanderson's career. At this point you're just rewriting history to fit your narrative.
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
ebooks have been a thing since at least the '90s, Adobe launched the PDF format in 1993 and the EPUB format was launched in 1999. You never needed a Kindle to read ebooks, and even then 2007 was pretty early into Sanderson's career. At this point you're just rewriting history to fit your narrative.
Then don't publish it I guess. Putting something out into the world means that it's going to be out there. There's not really any solution to this.
November 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Then don't publish it I guess. Putting something out into the world means that it's going to be out there. There's not really any solution to this.
He wrote his first book in 2005, that was already five years into the Limewire era. I can guarantee you that piracy has been a thing for his entire career. If other artists were popular they could just as easily get donations via Kickstarter/Patreon, what's stopping them?
November 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
He wrote his first book in 2005, that was already five years into the Limewire era. I can guarantee you that piracy has been a thing for his entire career. If other artists were popular they could just as easily get donations via Kickstarter/Patreon, what's stopping them?
He's very financially successful despite basically saying it's fine to pirate his books, which I think is a strong counterargument to the "piracy is the only reason I failed" crowd.
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
He's very financially successful despite basically saying it's fine to pirate his books, which I think is a strong counterargument to the "piracy is the only reason I failed" crowd.
AI is a whole Pandora's box that I believe we can't even begin to grasp the implications of yet, and I feel very pessimistic about it all, but I'm not gonna blame accessible literature/research for the problems posed by AI. It's a net good for humanity to have unfettered access to knowledge.
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
AI is a whole Pandora's box that I believe we can't even begin to grasp the implications of yet, and I feel very pessimistic about it all, but I'm not gonna blame accessible literature/research for the problems posed by AI. It's a net good for humanity to have unfettered access to knowledge.
Never read any of his stuff but Brandon Sanderson has an extremely sensible perspective on this topic:
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Never read any of his stuff but Brandon Sanderson has an extremely sensible perspective on this topic:
Well yeah that's why the entire crux of my argument is that libraries are the same thing as sites like archive.org, in some ways superior but in other ways inferior.
If libraries didn't already exist as a concept, anti-piracy hardliners would 100% oppose establishing them. It's bananas.
If libraries didn't already exist as a concept, anti-piracy hardliners would 100% oppose establishing them. It's bananas.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Well yeah that's why the entire crux of my argument is that libraries are the same thing as sites like archive.org, in some ways superior but in other ways inferior.
If libraries didn't already exist as a concept, anti-piracy hardliners would 100% oppose establishing them. It's bananas.
If libraries didn't already exist as a concept, anti-piracy hardliners would 100% oppose establishing them. It's bananas.
It doesn't matter if they're there or not, the people who wrote them want to take the whole site down because they believe that it's the only reason they're not popular. Pure delusion.
If you think that scenario is ideal then I agree and please advocate for that instead of criminalizing the site.
If you think that scenario is ideal then I agree and please advocate for that instead of criminalizing the site.
November 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
It doesn't matter if they're there or not, the people who wrote them want to take the whole site down because they believe that it's the only reason they're not popular. Pure delusion.
If you think that scenario is ideal then I agree and please advocate for that instead of criminalizing the site.
If you think that scenario is ideal then I agree and please advocate for that instead of criminalizing the site.
Sure but this is a totally different issue from "should archive.org exist?", because archive.org isn't doing those things. You're just pulling a motte-and-bailey here.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Sure but this is a totally different issue from "should archive.org exist?", because archive.org isn't doing those things. You're just pulling a motte-and-bailey here.
Cool, plenty of libraries are actively purging LGBT material as we speak. You are suggesting that libraries should be the only way to access art/research if you're poor. Can you do the 2 + 2 here? It shouldn't be controversial to suggest that archive.org is good actually.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Cool, plenty of libraries are actively purging LGBT material as we speak. You are suggesting that libraries should be the only way to access art/research if you're poor. Can you do the 2 + 2 here? It shouldn't be controversial to suggest that archive.org is good actually.
Are you being deliberately obtuse? Nobody is pirating your YA slop, the problem is that YA slop authors want to give more power to the government to restrict access to legitimate art/literature/research based on their delusions of people pirating their stuff.
November 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Are you being deliberately obtuse? Nobody is pirating your YA slop, the problem is that YA slop authors want to give more power to the government to restrict access to legitimate art/literature/research based on their delusions of people pirating their stuff.
And you're doing this all in the name of protecting the imaginary lost profits of some guy who wrote a book called Parry Hotter and the Guild of the Raven which he's convinced would've sold a million copies if not for archive.org. It's all legitimately insane.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
And you're doing this all in the name of protecting the imaginary lost profits of some guy who wrote a book called Parry Hotter and the Guild of the Raven which he's convinced would've sold a million copies if not for archive.org. It's all legitimately insane.
I think that every book should be accessible. You are advocating for the criminalization of archive.org, a digital community library that I consider to be one of the greatest achievements in human history. You're doing this at a time when the gov is actively purging physical libraries of LGBT media.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I think that every book should be accessible. You are advocating for the criminalization of archive.org, a digital community library that I consider to be one of the greatest achievements in human history. You're doing this at a time when the gov is actively purging physical libraries of LGBT media.
No, I'm saying that governments have the power to censor what a library hosts. Are you stupid?
November 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
No, I'm saying that governments have the power to censor what a library hosts. Are you stupid?
Their motivation may be delusional but that doesn't make their goals any less harmful.
November 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Their motivation may be delusional but that doesn't make their goals any less harmful.