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Originally Posted by HansTWN
The easiest way to make piracy pointless a heavy surcharge on everybody's internet connection. And everybody is allowed to download everything they want.Then a new bureaucracy will be created and the politicians will distribute the money to those they favor most. We won't be able to support the writers we like unless we shell out additional money for donations.
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Well, Amazons KDP Select is experimenting with this, but they don't have a bureaucracy doling out the funds, it's an algorithm. It's a simple algorithm, only factoring in the number of downloads, but algorithms can be improved upon. Netflixs algorithm uses time spent watching as a factor for instance...