It’s Deja Vu, Except With Someone Else

Posted By: Peter DavidPosted On:

Rich Johnston reports on a pirate website…one that was reported on by others as far back as early last year. The site gets shut down. And fans with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement, embracing the logical fallacy of “Post hoc ergo propter hoc” declare it’s his fault.

Welcome to my world, Rich.

PAD

21 comments on “It’s Deja Vu, Except With Someone Else”

  1. When I saw the news I thought to myself “I wonder if someones going to blame PAD?” 🙂

    1. I dunno, I think you’re actually on to something, David. I mean, where was Peter on November 22, 1963? Or April 14, 1912? Hmmm???
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      What’s that? He was only seven during the former date? That could’ve been an ingenious disguise! He wasn’t born yet during the latter? A likely story!
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      🙂

  2. What’s really funny (read: stupid) about that is that some of those people are posters on another creator’s website (I don’t want to mention his name because I don’t want people to think I’m trying to start a fight, because I’m not), where that same creator created a whole thread talking about the site and its pros and cons. But THAT can’t have had anything to do with drawing enough attention to it for it to get shut down. No, it’s all Rich Johnston.
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    I wonder how much it pays, to be an entire industry’s whipping boy.

  3. “Welcome to my world, Rich”
    Was this an intentional pun in honor of the “Nightmare” reboot, a riff on Monica Keena’s classic climactic line “Welcome to my world, bìŧçh” from “Freddy vs. Jason”? ’cause that’s what I immediately thought of.

    1. Uh…no. It’s just me using a pretty old term. Never saw “Freddy vs. Jason.”

      PAD

      1. Totally worth watching, just because it’s like seeing a big budget fan fiction crossover, it’s just downright wacky to see realized.

  4. Figured that might be the case. Just thought I’d ask. Especially since you have a breadth of pop culture knowledge and a special skill with puns:)
    as for the issue in question, this seems like it will be more and more commonplace in the future, as technology not only grows by leaps and bounds, but so does people’s sense of entitlement.

  5. Would this be the html site that published comic pages?

    If so, dammit, I was almost caught up on Secret Six…

  6. Gosh, PAD, shame on you and Rich Johnston for trying to protect your livelihoods! I mean, everyone knows writers exist for our pleasure, you know.

    Sigh, keep up the good fight. You’ve brought many hours of joy to your readers and the ones worth hearing from know it.

  7. Yeah, how dare you try and deprive us, your fans, of countless dozens of hours of enjoyment by making us PAY for comics!

    Ugh.

    I saw one guy try to equate internet sharing with growing one’s own fruit as opposed to buying it from the store. Which I wouldn’t have a problem with, if he were writing, drawing, and producing his own comics to read. That, and the fact that it’s NOT illegal to grow your own produce.

    The fact is, it’s ILLEGAL and WRONG to pirate comics. No matter what kind of justification one attempts to make, the bottom line is doing it is against the law. A judge won’t take the whole “comics are too expensive” argument as leverage in deciding one’s guilt. Hëll, CARS are too expensive. Go ahead. Try to steal one of those and make that same plea to the judge.

    If you can’t afford comics, then borrow them from a friend. That’s what one usually does. For cryin’ out loud, the internet can be your friend, because eBay deals are just waiting to be had, whereby you can get your grubby little mitts on a whole pile of books for pennies on the dollar.

    Just don’t fool yourself into thinking that reading pirated comics is somehow okay, or justified. ‘Cause it ain’t.

    1. I regularly loan out my arcs of Secret Six and Agents of Atlas (both very fine comics available at your local retailer) to one of my friends. He reads them, gives them back, and picks up the trades as his financial situation warrants.

    2. The fact is, it’s ILLEGAL and WRONG to pirate comics.
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      Well, y’see, Stephen, that’s where you go off the rails, right there. Cluttering up this whole business with some stupid “facts.” No place for that when it comes to this particular topic.
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      PAD

    3. Stephen wrote:
      “I saw one guy try to equate internet sharing with growing one’s own fruit as opposed to buying it from the store. Which I wouldn’t have a problem with, if he were writing, drawing, and producing his own comics to read. That, and the fact that it’s NOT illegal to grow your own produce.”

      I laughed when I read this. I agree with you completely.
      I just laughed at my own image of someone climbing that guys fence to get some of his own fruit from the trees.

      How many people think the open-minded fruit grower would be the first one to brandish a shotgun and shoot the trespasser for the theft of those wonderfully “free” fruits?

      1. I’ve always suspected that the same people who are the most broad minded when it comes to illegal reproduction are the first to download the latest virus software to make sure that no one cracks into their computer and steals their stuff.
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        PAD

  8. We have to bring in the West Wing quotes:

    President: Anybody know “Post hoc, ergo propter hoc”?

    Josh: Uh, uh, “post” – after, after hoc, “ergo” – therefore, “After hoc, therefore” something else hoc.

  9. Funnily enough Rich is trying to shift blame to Harlan Ellison.

    I imagine these pirates sending off all the angry e-mails to Harlan only to wake up the next day with a dead gopher on their pillow.

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