Prayers For Lexicon Steve

[Goddlefrood]

> Alla:
> It is just a lot of them do not do it, because, well, they want 
> to have nice relationships with fan community, or for various 
> other reasons, speculating here obviously.

Goddlefrood:

An intriguing theory.

> Alla:

> My beloved War and Peace for example has A LOT of characters, 
> and quite a few american friends complained to me how hard it 
> is to keep track of them.

> I know, maybe I should put the characters in order of alphabet 
> and summarise what all families in the book are about?
 
> You think had Lev Tolstoy had he been alive would have been 
> happy with me? Personally I really doubt that and I think that 
> would have been stealing of his work and making money out of 
> it. My opinion of course.

Goddlefrood:

Being a gentleman he probably wouldn't have minded too much, not 
that it didn't happen at the time. That his work is now in the 
public domain is by the by.

> Alla:
> I mean, really, I feel strongly about it, but it is not like 
> it will affect me personally. I am not even a writer of the 
> fanfiction, I just love to read it, so I guess in that sense 
> I do want to be able to continue to.

Goddlefrood:

I don't think there'll be any issue with fanfiction. If all else 
fails, perhaps Steve might engage the Pirate Bay's legal team and 
send a suitably obnoxious letter upon losing, while retreating to 
Sweden to publish his tome. Here's what I mean:

http://static.thepiratebay.org/warner_resp.txt

Goddlefrood, with no opinion on the case whatever and who is the 
proud owner of many pirate movies and illicitly downloaded texts, 
shh.