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Originally Posted by Giggleton
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...
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Amazon is doing this directly. All the data is on their servers. But how would you get all the data what anyone in the world downloads at any time via torrents or countless websites? Private sharing? Not to mention the fact that there are many different ISP's involved.
Unless you monitor all traffic centrally it could never be done, and such 100% monitoring wouldn't be practical in any case. Well if all traffic was being monitored, then we could just keep the current system and piracy would be eliminated. Everything could be traced, we could continue to use the much fairer system of paying for what we use and not paying for what others use.
So in reality the surcharges would have to be collected and then distributed by the government with incomplete data --- or the industry.