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It'd be interesting to have a resale tax for used goods, on top of any negotiated price, that followed royalty payments for a new digital good. As is, we're es
by ethbro 7y ago
It'd be interesting to have a resale tax for used goods, on top of any negotiated price, that followed royalty payments for a new digital good.
As is, we're essentially artificially creating disposable goods, for the primary purpose of enriching distributors at a cost to consumers.
- snuxoll 7y agoI think restoring copyright to sane periods is a better solution, resale of digital goods requires online DRM systems to continue functioning indefinitely and we’ve seen the issues that causes. I would be less annoyed by essentially consumable digital goods if I knew sometime down the road they would enter the public domain in a reasonable timeframe, and not well after the eventual death of the current generation of children.
- jjeaff 7y agoI shudder to say this, but that might actually be a use case for blockchain. A shared distributed ledger that an ebook reader consults before opening an ebook.
- est31 7y agoYeah the "don't let people sell used books twice" problem maps pretty well to the "prevent double spend" problem that blockchains (try to) solve.