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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
He gives a brief sketch at the end of the essay. Basically: volunteer payments, government funding of the arts, selling merchandising -- apparently anything but paying a direct, pre-set price for digital content.
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We already have one of those in Europe and its been working great for years - government funded arts projects. We have some brilliant theatre, poetry and fiction that exists because of government grants in the UK. The pre-set price belongs to an era when the object itself had a fixed and tangible cost. Paying before you enjoy anything in the digital world seems less and less natural as time goes by. Pay-what-you-like-and-if-you-like is more digital and democratic.