[Groop] Groo... What pirates? (File Sharing)

[Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat]

Le mercredi 28 janvier 2004 à 16:24, Groo écrivait:
>  
> I was on the emule/edonkey network and for the heck of it decided to look up
> "Groo". There were several groo comics being shared in PDF format.
> 
> I don't know what the Groop's views are on file sharing and was just curious
> what you all thought.

Well, if you (well, they) are ready to download PDF files made of
scans, then you don't mind not having the originally published issue
(in near-mint condition, sealed, etc.). Then, you should have no problem
with buying one of those nifty reprints (most of them even have new
silly writings from ME and a few original Aragonès doodles). So, go and
buy them!

On the other hand, having only the one or two first issues of a
four-part Groo story available on those networks would be a neat
marketing trick. I'm sure two issues are enough to get addicted to
Groo. I got addicted after a review in a French fanzine and a single
issue (#55) I read maybe one or two years later.

On the third hand, I don't think that people who are ready to read
xeroxed issues of Groo would have bought them if they had no other choice
(no photocopiers, no P2P sharing networks, no public libraries). So
these "pirates" are probably not harming (financially or morally) our
beloved authors and hero.

False statues and other stuff mentionned on the list from times to times,
on the fourth hand (Honey? Am I turning into a chimpanze or an octopus,
or what? What was that glowing dish we had yesterday evening in the
fast-food near the nuclear plant, already?), do harm Mark & Sergio,
because people pay for those, which are made with the characters they
created, and these things are most of the time not at the level of
quality we (the Groop) are accustomed to.

Did I make sense?

    -- BooK, Groo addict way before he learnt about that Internet thingie


PS: Gary, I'm part of the Groop since Oct 27, 1995. Did you get the file
    I sent you and Josh?

-- 
 Philippe "BooK" Bruhat

 Out of the worst can often come the best.
                                    (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #57 (Epic))