5 ms·
I don't know if its true but I think its a valid perspective and so there's likely some truth there. People don't want to pay for content. If people pay for co
by chordalkeyboard 6y ago
I don't know if its true but I think its a valid perspective and so there's likely some truth there.
People don't want to pay for content. If people pay for content and feel ripped off, they can ask for a refund. Then cheaters can pay to access the content then ask for their money back if they want to. This puts the content provider in a bad position.
If people pay for content, then they want to have that content themselves forever. In some sense, this is fair. But then they want to share that content with others. Then the other person/people don't need to pay. Now you have a problem where everyone can just get the content when one person has paid for it. This is a bad dilemma where content providers and consumers both seem to have a good case.
Since neither pay model seems to work, companies just show ads. Then people ignore ads, so the ad companies make them more attention-grabbing and intrusively targeted. So people use reader mode and ad blockers. Now no one is looking at the ads that pay for the content.
I wish I knew the answer.
- rowanG077 6y agoI'd say piracy like you are saying is not even a blib on the radar. Steam, Netflix and Spotify have proven this.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoI think it depends on the genre. Sci-Hub is hugely popular [0] among academics and the academic publishers allege that they are missing out on a lot of money because of it (Can't find the source now). [0] https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2020/01/15/sci-hub-users-cost-asa-journals-hundreds-of-thousands-of-downloads-and-thats-ok/ https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2020/01/15/sci-hub-us...
- rowanG077 6y agoThat's a completely different game. Academic publisher have little value add. They essentially steal and make money of the work of scientist while the scientist themselves have to pay them. This is not comparable to piracy in the consumer sense.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoI'm not assigning any moral weight to them; just observing the basic facts as they result to publishing.
- rowanG077 6y agoIt's not about anything moral. It's about a qualitative difference between. The second one should even be called piracy.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoWhats the qualitative difference? > The second one should even be called piracy. Sure, I agree. Piracy is a loaded term anyway.
- rowanG077 6y agoYou are getting content you made yourself for free VS you are getting content you have not made yourself.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoI havent made any of the studies I download from sci hub unless youre referring to the funding via tax dollars.
- rowanG077 6y agoThen you are not the typical user. By and large people who use journals are scientists and students who publish themselves.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoThey aren’t downloading their own papers; rather those of their colleagues.
- nearbuy 6y agoAmong younger people I know (under 35), piracy is extremely common, and Netflix/Spotify/Steam is also extremely common (although the Netflix accounts are often shared with a relative or friend). They aren't really mutually exclusive.