Anti-fanfic Bingo, redux

[mirabile-dictu.livejournal.com]

All right! Our first round of Anti-Fanfic Bingo went beautifully, and we have plans for your responses, but let's move on to the second row of the card:



How would you respond to these accusations? Just like last time, please tell ComRel!

Graphic by the wonderful Ciderpress.

Ithiliana's post that started it all is here.

-- femmequixotic, bethbethbeth, ciderpress, mirabile_dictu, shrift, svmadelyn
Community Relations Committee

Comments

[sundancekid.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's more like I came by your house and stole the light from your streetlight... it's hurt you not one iota.
Agree with the person above me; that actually DOES hurt people. I think a better analogy might be that you had a candle and I came and lit my candle from yours -- your candle remains lit. (Maybe?)

[erinya.livejournal.com]

I think it's more like someone took a picture of your car and used it as the basis for their own (amateur) art. Bad art or good art, explicitly sexual or satiric, it doesn't affect your ability to drive your car.

It almost works...the whole car analogy is terrible because on the one hand writing or art is intellectual rather than personal property, as mentioned above, and on the other hand people tend to be less emotionally attached to their cars than they are to their writing.

[kangeiko]

take 2

[elf]

I didn't read it as "stole the bulb from your streetlight"... but "I stood under it and used the light, and BLOCKED THAT LIGHT from reaching the sidewalk bwahaha, I have STOLEN YOUR LIGHT..."

(OTOH, someone was busted for "stealing" wireless internet from a library that didn't bother to turn it off at night... he parked in the parking lot and connected from there. I didn't hear whether he was convicted, nor on what charge he was held.)

[kangeiko]

Hee - I'm going to have to amend the above, aren't I? I meant 'stealing the light' in the classic economic meaning: street lighting is a public good. I can't stop anyone else from using that light, even if they haven't paid for it (through taxes, or by a fee on a private street). Neither does them using the light deplete it in any way: it is non-depletable and non-divisible.

[kangeiko]

The *light*, not the *blub*. Noone is stealing your bulbs. They're just seeing things using your streetlight without paying for the privilege. It doesn't hurt you. It doesn't deplete the light. You can't really stop them using the light. There is no bad here.