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ruskie · 03-31-2009, 06:20 AM

I chose the third... And if you don't believe me your own choice. I'll explain by example.

I'm an avid reader. If it's Sci-Fi or Fantasy I'll read it more or less front to back. So when a friend introduced me to the Discworld by Terry Pratchett I was hooked but at the time I had 0 disposable income. The local libraries only ever had 3 or 4 or the books and generally all the same.

So I resorted to getting the shared versions online. Now that I have that disposable income I buy 3 of the books every 2-3 months. I buy them in pbook form. I might even buy the ebook versions if I can find a drm-free seller.

And what's more I'll be buying the extra material and some of his other books as well. Similar thing are the books from Peter F. Hamilton I've got them from the library but will be buying them after I'm done with the Discworld book buying. I'll probably buy them sooner if I find them in a DRM-free ebook format since they tend to be rather thick volumes.

Hope this explains things. I don't mind freebies but I don't like getting the shared stuff without some compensation.

What I would prefer the most is a reasonable(10-30eur) monthly flatrate fee payed to some common pool and a way to report what content one consumed to be deducted from it.

I would split the fees over video, music, text each the same amount and a way to report it. So that would be 3 different pools each for one.

I am not saying this should be forced upon people but voluntary.

The one thing I do want is to NOT be limited to a particular service. If I want to get some content from torrents I should be able to but I also want to be able to give back to the authors.

And just as another example of not being a freeloader I actually bought a Free Software/Open Source game(yes bought, got a nice CD for it and so on).

03-31-2009, 06:20 AM	#47
ruskie Shade Posts: 100 Karma: 546 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: U.LC.MW.Sol.Earth.EE.SI.LJ Device: Hanlin Jinke V3ext running OpenInkPot	I chose the third... And if you don't believe me your own choice. I'll explain by example. I'm an avid reader. If it's Sci-Fi or Fantasy I'll read it more or less front to back. So when a friend introduced me to the Discworld by Terry Pratchett I was hooked but at the time I had 0 disposable income. The local libraries only ever had 3 or 4 or the books and generally all the same. So I resorted to getting the shared versions online. Now that I have that disposable income I buy 3 of the books every 2-3 months. I buy them in pbook form. I might even buy the ebook versions if I can find a drm-free seller. And what's more I'll be buying the extra material and some of his other books as well. Similar thing are the books from Peter F. Hamilton I've got them from the library but will be buying them after I'm done with the Discworld book buying. I'll probably buy them sooner if I find them in a DRM-free ebook format since they tend to be rather thick volumes. Hope this explains things. I don't mind freebies but I don't like getting the shared stuff without some compensation. What I would prefer the most is a reasonable(10-30eur) monthly flatrate fee payed to some common pool and a way to report what content one consumed to be deducted from it. I would split the fees over video, music, text each the same amount and a way to report it. So that would be 3 different pools each for one. I am not saying this should be forced upon people but voluntary. The one thing I do want is to NOT be limited to a particular service. If I want to get some content from torrents I should be able to but I also want to be able to give back to the authors. And just as another example of not being a freeloader I actually bought a Free Software/Open Source game(yes bought, got a nice CD for it and so on).