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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
Movies hasn't been available for download for as long as MP3 songs, so the changes hasn't been as far-reaching yet. Take the new HBO serious Luck, it stars Dustin Hoffman who as far as I know have never appeared in a TV series before. So is this perhaps the future for movies? They will all be made for cable channels?
This leads me to the question of what will happen to books in the future. If her generation expects books to be free in the future, who will write them? I believe it was Samuel Johnson who said "only a blockhead writes, except for money". Does that imply that in the future only blockheads will write?
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Established entertainment commodities and distributors will be able garner payments pre-conception from their previously established audiences. Hopefully these payments will be enough for the producers.
I would much like a centralized and mirrored server containing every and any text that anyone cares enough to upload, accessible at all times by anyone everywhere. I think we can all agree that this would be a good thing yes?
As far as payments go, if we must insist on using monies to exchange goods, then access to the aforementioned server could be prorated based on your income. If you have no income then your access could be subsidized by those whose income is greater than yours or something like that. This would of course require an end to anonymity and unique ip addresses for everyone.
In this way, those who wish to write for money/goods could still do so. That's what we're moving towards right?? What is the point of this thing (the network) if not to freely share information??