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If this is used for proprietary business models, that's completely backwards. The future involves recognizing that digital works are NOT scarce, only developmen
by quadrangle 13y ago
If this is used for proprietary business models, that's completely backwards. The future involves recognizing that digital works are NOT scarce, only development time or server bandwidth is.
Paying this way for server bandwidth is fine. Otherwise, this is about excluding poorer people from accessing resources, just like the traditional broken proprietary business model.
I hope this idea dies quickly. We don't need anything that further extends proprietization, we need systems to fund Open projects.
- rayiner 13y agoIf digital works are not scarce, where are all the great public domain licensed movies, TV shows, and video games?
- quadrangle 13y agoIt's copies that aren't scarce.