Comments on: Pirate Comics http://do-or-do-not.com/content/pirate-comics Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Allen http://do-or-do-not.com/content/pirate-comics/comment-page-1#comment-396 Allen Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:55:38 +0000 http://thunderdog.com/?p=275#comment-396 <p><i>The funnybook Big 2 would be wise to follow the music biz’ lead: give up, basically, and work with the leading providers of Free Comics and set up a purchase-able subscription service or something.</i></p> <p>I have thoughts on that very topic — in fact, this post was originally twice as long as it is now — but I wanted to keep that idea to myself and explore some options before I release it into the wild. :)</p> The funnybook Big 2 would be wise to follow the music biz’ lead: give up, basically, and work with the leading providers of Free Comics and set up a purchase-able subscription service or something.

I have thoughts on that very topic — in fact, this post was originally twice as long as it is now — but I wanted to keep that idea to myself and explore some options before I release it into the wild. :)

]]> By: The Dread Pirate Bishop http://do-or-do-not.com/content/pirate-comics/comment-page-1#comment-395 The Dread Pirate Bishop Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:36:24 +0000 http://thunderdog.com/?p=275#comment-395 <p>Courtney Love (God help us) had something to say about piracy (as it applies to music, but relevant here): rampant free-downloading of The Product sort of penalizes the Producers for flooding the market with crappy, substandard work for the same price as The Good Stuff (for her example, "CD's with only 2 good songs on them"). Your reasoning behind downloading what you do is to aid you in allocating your scarce purchasing resources. It's no different than sitting in a Barnes & Noble leafing through a <em>Preacher</em> or borrowing a friend's copy of <em>Runaways</em> to see if you'd like to pick up some or all of what's available for those titles. (Both those books were excellent; even if they'd been merely good, I'd have purchased EVERYTHING I could get my hands on.) The music industry beat the comics industry to a Crisis by Piracy, and the funnybook Big 2 would be wise to follow the music biz' lead: give up, basically, and work with the leading providers of Free Comics and set up a purchase-able subscription service or something.</p> Courtney Love (God help us) had something to say about piracy (as it applies to music, but relevant here): rampant free-downloading of The Product sort of penalizes the Producers for flooding the market with crappy, substandard work for the same price as The Good Stuff (for her example, “CD’s with only 2 good songs on them”). Your reasoning behind downloading what you do is to aid you in allocating your scarce purchasing resources. It’s no different than sitting in a Barnes & Noble leafing through a Preacher or borrowing a friend’s copy of Runaways to see if you’d like to pick up some or all of what’s available for those titles. (Both those books were excellent; even if they’d been merely good, I’d have purchased EVERYTHING I could get my hands on.) The music industry beat the comics industry to a Crisis by Piracy, and the funnybook Big 2 would be wise to follow the music biz’ lead: give up, basically, and work with the leading providers of Free Comics and set up a purchase-able subscription service or something.

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