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There is a way to make piracy obsolete which almost happened in France: the Licence Globale. https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_globale https://fr.m.wikipe
by boudin 5y ago
There is a way to make piracy obsolete which almost happened in France: the Licence Globale.
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_globale https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_globale (content in French).
The concept is to allow the exchange of copyrighted cultural goods and collect a fee at the ISP level to finance those back.
- sofixa 5y agoThank you for this. What a world we could have had if this law had passed!
- skyzyx 5y agoI co-founded a company in 2006 which intended to do something very similar to this. We ran out of money when the economy collapsed in 2008. I’m still passionate about the idea, but it’s high-risk for a private corporation in the US to pull off.