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David C. Smith's avatar

Mark, how did you track down the stolen Blood and Thunder? On a website or some other place? I'd like to see if my old books have been pirated.

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Mark Finn's avatar

Hey David, there is a tool they published in the Atlantic article that lets you search their database. I just typed my name in and it popped up.

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David C. Smith's avatar

Thanks!

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David C. Smith's avatar

Mark, yup, the Sonjas are there and two of the books in my fantasy trilogy. None of the Orons. But there is a ton of scientific peer-reviewed papers from many disciplines written by David C. Smiths far more intelligent than I am! :-) Thanks again.

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Mark Finn's avatar

I think maybe our greatest sin in this respect is that we aren’t Dean Koontz. Come to think of it, I’m actually okay with that.

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Mark Finn's avatar

I, too, I have an academic doppelgänger named Mark Finn and a lot of of his papers and academic dissertation’s are available through the Russians as well. He should be really pissed!

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Kevin Alexander's avatar

My doppelganger is a food reporter. Super nice guy on the few times we've crossed (cyber) paths.

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Jayme Blaschke's avatar

The class action lawsuit has been churning for quite some time. We have Richard Kadrey, Christopher Golden and Sarah Silverman (of all people) to thank for the discovery which has laid Meta's egregious behavior bare: https://www.wired.com/story/new-documents-unredacted-meta-copyright-ai-lawsuit/

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Kevin Alexander's avatar

I hope you take 'em to the mat.

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Mark Finn's avatar

Can we pile on?

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Jayme Blaschke's avatar

It would be a shame not to.

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Paul Riddell's avatar

Thank you. You beat me to it. None of my stuff was in this warez site (Greasing the Pan was regularly pirated by Russian sites a decade ago, so I was surprised), but I have my friends’ backs on this, and I’ll keep pushing until the final settlement involves everyone whose work was ripped off getting to kick Zuck in the balls.

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sisdecadence's avatar

All I have to say about the Goggins dong is, “FINALLY”!! We have had female nudity shoved at us for decades. Now, I love nekkid chicks, but I always felt it was way off kilter, unequal, and unfair that a good 90-95% of movie nudity was women. It’s TIME for the swinging dong and all the straight boys better get used to it! 😆🤘🏻

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Mark Finn's avatar

It’s less about the dong, per se, and more about the fact that it was a Gogginsdong that I felt I should have been warned about. There is SO much dick in Minx, but I kinda knew what I was in for, subject-matter-wise. Mostly, though, every time I end up face to face with an actor’s flaccid member in the frame, I find myself wanting to say, “dammit, man, get a semi! Represent! You’re making us all look bad—I mean, worse!”

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sisdecadence's avatar

Lol, I wonder if it's hard to get a semi when working. I mean, you can't beat a li'l chubb for visuals. They'd probably erect a memorial to an actor who could do that on the regular, no bones about it!

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