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But it's free to distribute. So instead of charging customers for distribution, they should be charging customers the up-front cost of production.
by CaptSpify 9y ago
But it's free to distribute. So instead of charging customers for distribution, they should be charging customers the up-front cost of production.
- camhenlin 9y agoHow do you suggest that they do that?
- jameskegel 9y agoCrowd fund production
- CaptSpify 9y agoThat is a good question, and I'm not sure I have a good answer. Kickstarter and Patreon seem to be doing pretty well, but AFAIK they haven't been used to such a scale so they may not work for this. This is a big issue and our economy is largely suffering for it, but old-world thinking about treating digital goods like physical goods is a poor response.
- TruffleMuffin 9y agoVeronica Mars movie was made through kickstarter way back when. That was successful, and specifically covered cost of production. I can't remember the donation system, but most tiers got free digital copy of the film.
- shmerl 9y agoIt was a total failure at release though, since WB didn't make it available DRM-free[1]. It's a counter example of how to do things. The end result was - never trust WB. A proper example would be something like Kung Fury[2]. 1. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140314/23410326583/warner-bros-turns-kickstarter-success-story-into-flaming-mess-with-proprietary-platforms-drm.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140314/23410326583/warne... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fury
- SapphireSun 9y agoI'm not against this, but it goes against the grain of a capitalist economy as it does not maximize overall profits. For this concept to work at scale, we might need to rejigger the whole economy.
- shmerl 9y agoIt goes against the concept of commercialized art I'd say. Which is probably a good thing.
- CaptSpify 9y agoand? Just because our economic models are out of date doesn't mean we need to change the way we behave to keep shoe-horning them in. It means we need to change our models to reflect reality.
- SapphireSun 9y agoTo be clear, I am totally on board with reimagining the economy. Sorry, that didn't come through in my post.
- CaptSpify 9y agoMy apologies. I feel my response was a bit defensive. I guess I'm just used to people arguing that "it would hurt because of $short_term_economic_issue, so we shouldn't consider it at all!"