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Originally Posted by Xenophon
I want the Googles of the world to be able to tell the Gov't to take a hike.
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They still can under my suggestion. Basically the Government would regulate a global subscription plan, authenticating users using something like a verifiable-ID such as OpenID, using multiple independent sources for statistics to compare and verify trends in usage statistics and user ratings and then using multiple recommendations algorithms to diversify the usage of as many of the works of art as possible.
Nowhere in my plan does bureaucrats in the Government look at names in databases, see what they are reading, and picks artists to pay. The whole system should be one standard and the actual technological implementations can be outsourced to Google, Amazon and whoever else can provide such huge cloud computing infrastructures.
The point here is that Google and Amazon should compete on providing cloud computing infrastructure, such as databases, authentification systems even standards for Connected E-Reader devices. But those technological entities should NOT function as publishers taking cuts on sales of ebooks or doing any kind of exclusive backdoor dealings with publishing companies for exclusive distribution rights. Money to pay for the technological service and infrastructure should be completely separate from the money going from readers directly to authors. And there should be absolutely no intermediaries in between the readers and the authors. The authors should have complete artistic freedom and complete executive control on the production of their artistic projects.