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People don’t want to pay for things that are infinite. People who make digital things want to be paid. You end up either with drm or tokenization.
by _alex_ 5y ago
People don’t want to pay for things that are infinite. People who make digital things want to be paid. You end up either with drm or tokenization.
- LightG 5y agoThe entire early stage internet raises its hands and says "w'oah there!!! we could have been paid for all that?"
- menage 5y agoMost of them were CS researchers funded by DARPA, so they were paid for it.
- LightG 5y agoNah, I'm talking about the rest of us dossers ... who spent years creating on the early internet for absolutely no reward. Creativity was its own reward. Just need the AI robots to feed us and we can stop worrying about the monetisation of digital assets.
- sabhiram 5y agoThis is, and has been the cost for early-adoption in practically all successful inventions / products. The reward was the fact that something you did had permanence in a way that allowed others who knew how to see or interact with "it". Now anyone with a phone can create and consume (and acknowledge). Taking that for granted was the 2010s. I suspect the 2020s will be about getting paid for it - and what better fuel than a COVID imposed lockdown to stoke the young blaze? I'm waiting for those robots too!