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by zanny 5084 days ago
It is easy - digital content has no cost of distribution, replication, or reproduction so charging for individual units is a failing model. So charge elsewhere, such as at the point of creation, or as an inclusion on something with per unit cost.

Basically, fund the creation of infinitely reproducible goods and release them for free, either through ads, through investments or crowd-funding, or through contracts.

We should be embracing how easy and cheap it is to replicate media of all forms, not trying to prevent the physical realities of electric charge and transistors.

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Theoretically easy, I agree. We need to dislodge the dinosaur thugs that have made this difficult. Unfortunately it seems as though their moral compass and logic calibration is inversely proportional to their degree of desperation for profit.