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Maybe where I personally land is that someone who produces content has the right to sell it however they like. The deal we can all make is that you can pay the
by CubsFan1060 5y ago
Maybe where I personally land is that someone who produces content has the right to sell it however they like. The deal we can all make is that you can pay the price for the product and consumer it, or not.
In the digital age, there are a lot of people who decide that we get to price the content however we want. We decide that because they are trying to use terrible ads to make money, that we can just go around that and take their content for free.
That doesn't fly real well with physical products (This loaf of bread is priced at $1, but I only want to pay $0.50, so I'll just give them $0.50 and take it), but seems to be accepted with products that have infinite free reproducibility.
- technothrasher 5y agoThe analogy is more like they are out on the public road giving away free loaves of bread along with ad flyers. I take the bread and refuse the flyer. They can put themselves behind a fence, without letting anybody in who doesn't take their flyer. That's fine, I'll just skip their bread. They can charge for their bread. That's fine, I'll just skip their bread. No hard feelings on my end, it's all fair. But what they cannot reasonably do is give away free bread and then complain that I won't take their ad flyers.
- Angostura 5y agoAren't you going to get rather hungry?
- bialpio 5y agoNot if there's another stall handing out slightly different bread but without the flyer. There's a lot of content available for free, depending on your goal there's always something descent to read.
- TchoBeer 5y agoIs that really what you want? News being locked behind increasingly strict locks?