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You can't be serious. How would you feel if your salary was generated by a tip jar? IP owners are free to set their terms and you're welcome to not purchase th
by thirdsun 9y ago
You can't be serious. How would you feel if your salary was generated by a tip jar?
IP owners are free to set their terms and you're welcome to not purchase their content if don't agree with them. Don't get me wrong - I don't like the DRM-ridden practices of the movie industry either and wish they would copy the music industry, which allows me to buy their content DRM-free wherever I want.
- Nullabillity 9y agoThis is already how all digital content works, it's just a question of whether producers and lawmakers are ready to admit it yet.
- thirdsun 9y agoIt's not, unless by all you mean some digital content. Donation-based content is still the exception and I think it's fine for creators to set a definitive price/value for their work as they see fit. I buy my music digitally, lossless for a one-time flat fee and I own the content, ready to played with any player/software I can think of. With software and games it's slightly different since there's usually DRM involved, yet there's rarely a tip jar to be seen.