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If I’m reading this correctly, a household would pay five dollars and change; and get what in return exactly?

by the-printer 4y ago

dredmorbius 4y ago
Everything ever published.
- MrVandemar 4y ago
  I'd sign up for that in a heartbeat, as long as nobody was tracking the books I was reading.
  - dredmorbius 4y ago
    I'd like to see privacy built in as well. ISPs and origins could monitor total requests, but not allocate those to individuals. Another option might be for a Neilsen-type monitoring of specifically-included and participating randomly-selected households. The great thing about random sampling being, of course, that an overall view of population behaviours can be inferred from a much smaller view. The "stat" in "statistics" comes from "state", as in "seeing like a state". <https://www.etymonline.com/word/statistics https://www.etymonline.com/word/statistics>
- ROTMetro 4y ago
  Are you going to let criminals publish their memoirs and profit from their criminal acts? Are you going to be able to force every family in the country to support that? Or to support books on subjects they find taboo? Are you going to distribute funds to 'A Reinterpretation of Mein kampf for the modern Anti-semitic'?
  - dredmorbius 4y ago
    I don't see this as much different in principle from cases now where a criminal sentence might require any gains based on the crime, including creative adaptations, be directed to the victims or some other designated beneficiary. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam_law> As challenges go, this is pretty small fry.
- specialist 4y ago
  My hunch is this would stimulate demand for hardware. I got off the media technology treadmill during the VHS->DVD transition. Most every one was incredulous that I didn't have cable or own a TV. I replied that I'd buy one of everything the moment I could watch any show ever made, right now, for one dollar. I'd definitely invest in a paper-white e-ink tablet book reader gizmo. I'd probably get a boss gaming rig too.

If I’m reading this correctly, a household would pay five dollars and change; and get what in return exactly?

dredmorbius 4y ago

Everything ever published.

MrVandemar 4y ago
I'd sign up for that in a heartbeat, as long as nobody was tracking the books I was reading.
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  I'd like to see privacy built in as well. ISPs and origins could monitor total requests, but not allocate those to individuals. Another option might be for a Neilsen-type monitoring of specifically-included and participating randomly-selected households. The great thing about random sampling being, of course, that an overall view of population behaviours can be inferred from a much smaller view. The "stat" in "statistics" comes from "state", as in "seeing like a state". <https://www.etymonline.com/word/statistics https://www.etymonline.com/word/statistics>
ROTMetro 4y ago
Are you going to let criminals publish their memoirs and profit from their criminal acts? Are you going to be able to force every family in the country to support that? Or to support books on subjects they find taboo? Are you going to distribute funds to 'A Reinterpretation of Mein kampf for the modern Anti-semitic'?
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  I don't see this as much different in principle from cases now where a criminal sentence might require any gains based on the crime, including creative adaptations, be directed to the victims or some other designated beneficiary. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam_law> As challenges go, this is pretty small fry.
specialist 4y ago
My hunch is this would stimulate demand for hardware. I got off the media technology treadmill during the VHS->DVD transition. Most every one was incredulous that I didn't have cable or own a TV. I replied that I'd buy one of everything the moment I could watch any show ever made, right now, for one dollar. I'd definitely invest in a paper-white e-ink tablet book reader gizmo. I'd probably get a boss gaming rig too.