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Comic Sales Soar After Artist Engages 4chan Pirates
An anonymous reader writes "Steve Lieber, the artist behind the graphic novel Underground, discovered that someone on 4chan had scanned and posted the entire comic. Rather than complaining, he joined the conversation, chatting with the 4channers about the comic... and the next day he saw his sales jump to unheard-of levels, much higher than he'd seen even when the comic book was reviewed on popular sites like Boing Boing."
4chan can use their powers for good?
Um... I just don't know how to process that information...
Windows sales: post to piratebay
Thanks in advance, although, a cashier's check in the amount of Euro 100,000,000 would help.
Yours In Krasnoyarsk,
Kilgore Trout
It's the adjectival form of datum, duh.
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...the comic was not about Gene Simmons?
From the graph that got posted, it looks like they DDoSed his bank account.
Who?
... how many of the sales were completed using credit card numbers that turned out to be stolen? (grin)
So that's what happens when you feed the trolls...
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
>Implying that dragging people to court isn't engaging
will 4chan bless me with more rain if i sacrifice my goat?
Start with "goat sacrifice", and then sacrifice the letters in the middle of the second word.
[the game]
If the RIAA respected their customers, do you really think that crap like Hanson and Bieber would ever be released?
K.T., I find your advocacy of the distribution of dangerous viruses to unsuspecting cybercitizens to be reprehensible.
>implying this is 4chan
>implying it's not
These sales CANNOT compare to the BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS of dollars he would have earned had these evil pirates not stolen his property.
(signed, the RIAA)
I like my story better.