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I don't understand what you're saying. Patreon, which exists and permits "stuff placed on the Web" to be accessed upon payment, either works or it doesn't. HT
by cxr 4y ago
I don't understand what you're saying. Patreon, which exists and permits "stuff placed on the Web" to be accessed upon payment, either works or it doesn't. HTTP additionally has a whole range of standardized 4xx status codes related to authorization—notably 402 Payment Required, but also 401 Unauthorized and 403 Forbidden. Similarly, subscriber-only podcasts exist.
Either people are getting paid for stuff (which would necessarily imply that it's possible), or they aren't.
- WillAdams 4y agoMy point is that there's no imprimatur for placing copyright material on the Web and then automatically paying the owner of the copyright --- without that, there should be no de facto expectation that a copyrighted document exist on the Web which is what I understood you to be specifying.