so you're pretending you don't know the difference between a one time cost (writing and editing it) and the costs of reproducing and distributing physical duplicates?
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Lots of people have tried this shit, lots of them have failed, and if you look at industry statistics the percentage of people making a decent living as "content creators" has likely gone down - WAY down - since the 90s and the days of those awful bloated album prices
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The Brave New World argument for why the Internet would make artists' lives better instead of worse rested on two basic falsehoods: 1) That most of the cost of selling IP on a physical medium was the physical platform itself (this was never true)
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Accepting this to be true, is there a solution? It doesn't seem possible/practical to get the old world back. So what's the answer?
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As always, pointing out problems is easier than pointing out solutions, which is why I prefer doing the former - I'm much more likely to be right
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Companies “updating their business model” to make most of their money from online sales cannot possibly involve making all the things they’re selling available online for free
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