Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The Waterview Bore, in reply to Matthew Poole,
What an outstandingly convenient business model.
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Hard News: MegaBox: From f**k-all to zero, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Reckon he'd quite like that. :)
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Hard News: MegaBox: From f**k-all to zero, in reply to Jarrod Baker,
It can get quite finely detailed - individual authors or even commenters could have their own Flattr accounts. Not sure how well it's worked so far, however.
I recall Russell looked into this a while ago.
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Hard News: MegaBox: From f**k-all to zero, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I'm not sure I see a problem with matching donors with recipients if you can make the donation on the page
How do people find their way to 'the page'?
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Hard News: MegaBox: From f**k-all to zero, in reply to Bart Janssen,
That’s why I like patronage as a model.
You'd still need some mechanism for matching donors with recipients.
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Hard News: MegaBox: From f**k-all to zero, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Same applies to Kim Dotcom who creates nothing for me hence I don’t want my earnings to be tracked to him.
Like Apple, Google and others, he's providing a shared distribution and revenue-sharing platform. That also has to be paid for somehow.
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Hard News: MegaBox: From f**k-all to zero, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
we need to provide money to people who provide quality content
Agreed. The old business arrangements in creative industries funneled income and control largely to intermediaries like record companies and movie studios.
New techologies allow a more direct connection between creators and audiences, but the business models have not caught up. The old industry is also resisting change by strong-arming lawmakers to preserve their advantage, often cloaked in the name of the artists.
That does neither creators nor audiences any favours. Both deserve better.
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Hard News: MegaBox: From f**k-all to zero, in reply to Idiot Savant,
Your rights as a creator do not extend to .. dictating how I experience and interact with your product
Actually, copyright has always done that as one of its functions.
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Hard News: MegaBox: From f**k-all to zero, in reply to Russell Brown,
that would actually be Karajoz and Eden Coffee, and Orcon
and I reckon the latter has done really well by a more active partnership in the Blend events.
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Hard News: MegaBox: From f**k-all to zero, in reply to Russell Brown,
A shared payments system across a number of sites is under discussion
Great. About time.