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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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People have figured out to monetize it, and are still figuring it. The internet is a disruptive technology, so not all of the old ways that required the interposition of a gatekeeper between creator and consumer will work in every case, but it has opened up monetization methods that didn't, couldn't exist before (donations direct to creators, Smashwords, Kickstarter, etc.).
What makes the internet so interesting is that content creators and gatekeepers lose some control to consumers, but that loss of control itself opens up new markets and methods of selling. There's no structural defect in the internet that needs to be addressed to make it easier to sell, the defect is in the way some are still trying to sell.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
Glad you realized your error. My guess is that you didn't bother to read the links in your desire to snark about dinosaurs and to affirm how supercool and perfect the Internet is. Well the Internet is supercool but writers still have to get paid. If writers can't get paid, they don't go to work- just like YOU don't go to work if you don't get paid, MR. LAWYER.
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I don't read your links because they are typically tired examples of confirmation bias. You sift the internet for those pieces by individuals who have had the world change while they weren't looking, individuals who share your own opinion on how things ought to be.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
Right now the Internet makes it easy to distribute content but makes it difficult to get paid for distributing content. That will be fixed in time once the rule of law comes to the Internet and writers can publish knowing that they can't be ripped off. With impunity . Secure IP rights is an old timer value all of us can get behind, whippersnapper.
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The internet opens up new markets and possibilities that never existed, even if some of those in the new market don't pay the net result is still more potential eyeballs on that content. The very openness of the internet that annoys you is what makes it such a valuable market; creators giving up some control to consumers isn't necessarily a bad thing.
And as we've already seen with sites like Megaupload and services like Napster, the rule of law has always been part of the internet. The world has changed (for the better), it's time to change with it.