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> How would you feel if you have a business, I steal from you, and then go give random people your content? This especially when it starts to drive into your re
by dml2135 5y ago
> How would you feel if you have a business, I steal from you, and then go give random people your content? This especially when it starts to drive into your revenues.
I would consider that if I am selling a product that has absolutely no scarcity, such as digital files, I have a few approaches.
- Introduce artificial scarcity with something like DRM
- Create a business model focused on the service of providing the product, rather than the product itself
I would not try to accuse my potential consumers of a crime in order to fix the flaws in my business model.
- pineconewarrior 5y agoThe other option, which obviously doesn't work for mega-corporate media, is independent, direct support (patreon, etc). Most of my favorite modern content is created in this way, and is entirely free to download and distribute - contribution is entirely optional. problem is that greedy media moguls want to get paid for a piece of content forever, instead of just raising enough money to cover the labor and advertising, give stakeholders some profit, and move on, so they cannot exist this way. That is their problem though :)