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"...where artists connect directly with their audiences, retaining full rights and profits"
So, DRM-crippled and paywalled and/or full of ads? If that's the case, especially the DRM, then no thanks. Copyright and its associated technologies has, in my opinion, caused incredible amounts of harm, and the only way forward without continuing to cause this harm is to abandon it.
In this question, these are my opinions (pretty much copied from the early Pirate Party):
DRM is very wrong. Toxic, dangerous.
Paywalls for data that is free to copy (okay, a fraction of a cent in connection and electricity - that the person copying it pays...) is morally wrong. Probably an unpopular opinion here, but I'm firm in it. (Paywalls for AI computation is a different thing - that's a cost per usage for the provider.)
Paying the artist for a commission work, paying the artist a tip, etcetera, is great, and Bitcoin - especially layers two and up - is great for that.
It will probably not pay as much as paywalls for zero-cost-to-copy data, but that only means that things requiring that in order to be produced, shouldn't have been produced in the first place.
So, DRM-crippled and paywalled and/or full of ads? If that's the case, especially the DRM, then no thanks. Copyright and its associated technologies has, in my opinion, caused incredible amounts of harm, and the only way forward without continuing to cause this harm is to abandon it.
In this question, these are my opinions (pretty much copied from the early Pirate Party):
DRM is very wrong. Toxic, dangerous.
Paywalls for data that is free to copy (okay, a fraction of a cent in connection and electricity - that the person copying it pays...) is morally wrong. Probably an unpopular opinion here, but I'm firm in it. (Paywalls for AI computation is a different thing - that's a cost per usage for the provider.)
Paying the artist for a commission work, paying the artist a tip, etcetera, is great, and Bitcoin - especially layers two and up - is great for that.
It will probably not pay as much as paywalls for zero-cost-to-copy data, but that only means that things requiring that in order to be produced, shouldn't have been produced in the first place.