Shrouded in sanity cards
He issued an apology on his Patreon page, in which he Gleb-splains his rationale for posting the links:
#SHROUDED IN SANITY CARDS OFFLINE#
Who knew?Īs a result of the online conversations as well as an offline conversation I was made aware of, Tsipursky decided to make things right. Interesting how he suddenly developed respect for copyright laws. Not to mention he also tried to force me to remove the Pro-Truth Pledge logo from my article, citing that it’s copyrighted. I didn’t get to see all of it though, since Tsipursky blocked me on Facebook after my original story was released… because transparency is scary and stuff. Is he giving that money to the rightful owners of the intellectual property he’s charging for when they complain? Is he refunding his patrons? Doubtful.Īs the discussions online heated up, Tsipursky was finally confronted by a number of podcasters in at least one private Facebook thread.
#SHROUDED IN SANITY CARDS FREE#
Not a bad rake for posting content he didn’t create and that’s otherwise free to the public. At the time this was discovered, Tsipursky was earning over $125 per posted link, possibly grabbing nearly $2,000 from his supporters in July alone (unless his patrons set a limit). He’s already profited from the post at that point. He has obliged when asked, but the damage has been done.
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Podcast hosts have since been made aware of this and some have asked Tsipursky to take down his links to their recordings. Pretty awesome for a guy going around asking people to sign a pledge of honesty. This is not only seriously unethical, but it may be a violation of copyright laws as well as Patreon’s terms of service. So when he does an interview, he posts a link to the recording (which is otherwise available to the public for free) on his Patreon page, automatically charging his patrons for the content that belonged to someone else. Patreon doesn’t verify that it’s actually content he created.
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Gleb Tsipursky has his Patreon page set up so that his patrons are charged every time he posts something and designates it as a patron-supported post.
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Once all of that came to light, it was discovered that Tsipursky was posting links to other people’s radio shows and podcasts on his Patreon page and charging his patrons for it, as if it were content he was creating. But unethical self-promotion tactics were apparently just the tip of the iceberg.