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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Babe Ruth is dead, and baseball is no longer the nation's sport.
I didn't say anything about knights and chivalry... I said people will figure out how to monetize digital media. The same as they've figured out how to monetize everything else since men settled down to grow crops and tend sheep.
You really think the internet can't be monetized? Don't hold your breath, pardner.
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As you are describing monetization - no. The control that used to be in I.P. is gone, destroyed by computers. It's not coming back, unless you smash all the computers. Which isn't going to happen.
Does that mean no money is goin to be made in I.P. in the digital age? Of course not. But it'll be against a background of free players, not all of them hopeless amateurs, and not all of them new. The Public Domain, define it as you will, (different contries, different definitions) will always be out there, readily available. Think Linux, Open Office, Project Gutenberg. Or think about people trying to use free offers to drum up customers. Just because you take the freebie doesn't mean you're going to buy more. And all of these are going to be available at your fingertips, as long as the current system exists.
The one thing that isn't changing is time. I now have more I.P. at my fingertips than I can consume in a lifetime. Don't tell me how I have to keep paying and paying for more.
As Jack Vance said in The Demon Prince series, "There will always be a Beyond." Barring economic collapse, there will always be an abundance.