Pirates of Savannah...."Arrrrrrgghhhh" discussion

Check it out y'all my book clawed it's way to the number one spot based on reviews, beating out 16,000 books. I am so excited, I owe it all to you great folks! Take a look for yourself http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=s...

Congratulations!!!

Not going to read too much on this group yet--only halfway through the book and don't want to see any spoilers. But, really enjoying the book...will be back in a little while when I finish. Good stuff! Congrats to Tarrin on a job well done!

Thanks for the props and supporting my book!

Congrats, Tarrin!!!
It's so exciting! :)
I'm on the last few chapters and I say - this book can beat much more than 16000 others :)

People are freely choosing to support your book, Tarrin, but I noticed the anti-copyright statement. This is remarkably consistent with your piratical subject.

But could you explain how anti-copyright would work for authors if all writers adopted it? Could there be such a thing as a full time writer if readers freely duplicated/downloaded all books and passed them on to other readers? I'm not trying to offend you. I'm genuinely interested in how you see the role of author surviving without copyright.

Shomeret, that is a great question, so keep an open mind while I explain. I grew up in a family of IP lawyers so I know more then the average Joe on this. For most of my life I just always assumed that a person always had to copyright and there was no other way. It was not till later on in life when I really started to understand liberty that copyright really started to eat at my conscience.

For the last 7 years I have tried to live my life by the non aggression principle, which basically means I refuse to use any find of force or violence on someone to get what I want. When you live by this rule you quickly realize that passing most laws are inadvertently using the force of government against my neighbor.

This did not sit well with me when I thought about IP law. In a nutshell you are saying to someone, if you think thoughts that are close to what I think, I can send men with guns (cops) to shut you down and take your property. This is really not much different then pointing a gun at my neighbor and telling him what ideas he is allowed to make a living with. It is a government granted monopoly to use force on your competition. It might be LEGAL because some politician wrote it down on a piece of paper somewhere but it does not make it right. Many times Legal does not equal right.

To answer the nuts and blots behind it, Copyright is assumed even if you don't file for it. I am no lawyer, but this is what I am told by the experts. So I basically have to use an ANTI-copyright to make it very clear I don't want it. Even with that, it is still a gray area that it is still implied in some cases. Basically If you buy directly from me it is without copyright. Some of these distributors like Amazon just force their own copyright on it anyway.

Ohhh I forgot, as far as surviving. Basically if someone wants to spend their own money and sell my books it does not bug me at all. In fact it makes my name even more popular and is getting my books in to peoples hands that normally would have never read it. There are millions and millions of folks out there, to focus that I "MIGHT" be losing a few sales is a waste of energy. I determine my own success.

If you want to take the most extreme example, where somebody takes my exact book and slaps their name on it, then I would look at the private market to defend me. My fans would tear someone apart and publicly trash them all over the net. It would cost way more in bad press then they would ever have made off my book. The private market can handle this better and faster then using the guns of government to solve my problems.

Congratulations, Tarrin! It's on my to-read and that's next now.

Congratulations! It is on my list to read!!!

Congratulations on the great success!!

Congratulations! :)

Congratulations on your accomplishment! :)