JA Westenberg
@joanwestenberg.eth
As more content shifted online, traditional business models that supported its creation - album sales, book royalties, subscription fees - began to crumble. The abundance of free content trained internet users to expect everything to be free all the time. Why pay for the cow when you can get the milk for free? https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-internets-original-sin
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vrypan |--o--|
@vrypan.eth
Indeed, why? Why force down our throats a model based on the assumption that distribution has choke points and friction, when we finally got practically free, unstoppable distribution?
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JA Westenberg
@joanwestenberg.eth
Because creators deserve to be paid for their work
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vrypan |--o--|
@vrypan.eth
I'm very reluctant on the definition of "creator" and also accepting that someone "deserves to be paid". But I agree, that I want some people to get paid for what they do. Why does it have to be by crippling distribution and use? If it was up to me, I would pay people who create things I like (furniture, food, music, visuals) for creating them. A cook spends 1h to prepare me a meal and we have agreed how much they will get paid. I want the same for music for example. (Which happens in live events, btw). Don't get me wrong, my only objection to the article is calling it a "sin" :-)
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