Discussion Piracy mentioned in webnovels

So i was reading MMORPG: Rebirth of the Legendary Guardian when i came across

"That is why, we must give them room to claim some glory for themselves. Otherwise, it could end up badly for us!” Zhang Yang nodded his head and said, “This is like piracy on the internet. If the main publisher is too greedy, more consumers will turn to sites like Pirate Bay! The main victims would be themselves in the end. Since they aren’t earning anything from their customers, they would be digging their own graves! That is why, we cannot be too greedy with all the glory, we have to leave achievements behind for others!”

I immediately associated this with the current situation with Qidian and had to chuckle. Anyone else see such fitting comments on piracy in novels?

 

No, but, jeez, I'm surprised that Qidian let that be on their site...

 

The irony of this paragraph

 

As with Manga there are websites which rip the chapters to host them themselves

 

They left a WN that is all about plagiarism alone.

 

That WN was promoting plagiarism though...

 

Oooohhhhh the irony

 

I thought that would be against the censorship laws? But, I guess some things get a pass if it is all "HEIL CHINA! OTHER PLACES SUCK FOR NOT BEING CHINA!".

 

If you don't like the price, don't buy the product. It's as simple as that. If I think a game isn't worth the price, I either wait for a sale on steam or don't buy it at all. Stop giving excuses for piracy.

 

I actually wasn't? I was commenting more on how qidian stealing from wuxiaworld is only doing themselves more harm. It negatively affects them in more ways than one.

 

"That is why, we must give them room to claim some glory for themselves. Otherwise, it could end up badly for us!” Zhang Yang nodded his head and said, “This is like piracy on the internet. If the main publisher is too greedy, more consumers will turn to sites like Pirate Bay! The main victims would be themselves in the end. Since they aren’t earning anything from their customers, they would be digging their own graves! That is why, we cannot be too greedy with all the glory, we have to leave achievements behind for others!”​

I was referring to this block for text. This is just giving excuses for piracy.

 

mmh one of the most famous manga is based on piracy, you know right?

this post is just a joke tehehe

 

That is kinda amusing. I must check out this novel at some point~

 

Better off not checking it out. It's one of the more boring game novels and some of the characters are super annoying. MC does everything in his team of annoying leeches and close to never does any of the fun solo quests/solo hunts that are interesting to read. For example, there's a girl on his team who's like super rich but still obsessed with money and always tries to get more money.

 

!!! the Irony !!!

yes, it is my favorite, and I pirate it online, as it is NOT available in India.

 

Meh, I'm fine if it's only rehosting. To me the problem is more (1) ads, (2) watermarking and (3) compressing images to 10kB JPEG with artifacts.

 

You er, do realize that's a direct quote from the translation right?