Except they actually published their post. A good writer would proofread their own single sentence before publishing it.



Arbitrary definitions of 'good' ftw.

As an indie author I can sympathise with his annoyance at people pirating his work. However he is making the classic mistake of assuming that if those people couldn't get his work for free, they would have gone to Amazon and paid for it.

As my sig suggests I decided to upload all my own books to ISOHunt, Demonoid, Pirate Bay and Retroshare. I even posted about it in their forums, on 4Chan and include links to the torrents on my blog.

The torrent page and the forum posts all contained an image of the front cover of my latest book. I got some nice feedback and potentially reached a large audience that normally wouldn't even know who I was.

So what advantages are shrinking then? There is still an order of magnitude of difference in the complexities inherent between PCs and consoles and that isn't changing in any meaningful way.

You may rarely have issues with your PC because you know how to look after and operate it. As do I.

Others don't.

Wait, just so we are clear here; you actually think that the problems you can get with consoles are approaching the number and complexity of issues you can get with PCs...?

Updates for a console are done automatically. What headaches are you talking about that can be in any compared to what you might have to deal with on a PC?

While consoles make sense for the businesses who want to lock-in users, they make absolutely no sense for consumers. PCs are a much better option in every way possible.

Turn on console. Put in game. Play.

They make perfect sense for consumers.

Meanwhile, all I want to do is be able to curse and give frank assessments of your skill.

Both of which can be done quite easily without being an arsehole.

'prices would have come down long ago if the industry was getting a share of the resells

Did anyone else?

Ah yes, the problem is with everyone else.

Not you.

Oh no.

You seem to have trouble dealing in anything other than absolutes.