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My attempt at an answer to the payment paradox
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Kevin Marks
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Jul 06, 2002 00:31 PDT
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I've spent the last year or so looking at the ongoing futility of trying
to lock up content and sniping at it from my blog. I've also been
reading everything I can find that is relevant, and thinking a lot.
I think I have a way to establish a market for digital works that is
fair, transparent and functional. Fair to the creators, fair to the
customers, and even fair to the promoters who help spread the word and
make the sales.
I've written it down at http://mediagora.com. I don't think it is
finished yet, but in the spirit of transparency and thinking in public,
I would love to hear what you all think of it - does it make sense? - is
it explained well? - is it readable in your browser? - all thoughts and
conversation welcome.
I've found that I can explain this to people if I sit down and talk to
them about it for about half an hour, but I've had a lot of trouble
writing it down in a clear way, because it involves grasping 3 or 4
concepts that don't seem self-evident to most people.
I believe that you find online what you go looking for. If you look for
thieves, scam artists and get rich quick pyramids schemes, you'll find
them.
I went looking for intelligent debate and people who are holding a
conversation to understand the transformative nature of the net, and I
found them
I think if we go looking for honest people who will pay for good work,
we will find them too, and open a new conversation.
Let me know what you think.
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 12:13 PM, Daniel Pádua wrote:
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How can you deal with this paradox of re-create the world where
information
is shared and still need to obtain the atoms you need to keep alive the
people sharing information, and to keep alive the people that built the
containers and their connections?
Or you re-organize society itself into a chain of social relationships
of
sharing with relationships of exchange in a local level, or you mutate
and
mutilate the way containers are connected until you get a monster where
information, even in a bizarre form, can be confined again - what would
make middlemen sleep again at night and keep this kind of society
working.
We live in a time where two kind of people are disputing to promote two
completely different lifestyles - Marketing Fight or Community Sharing.
And
I'm not talking about end of commerce. Atoms will keep been exchanged.
But
when sellers and buyers know the same information about the product,
commerce only happens within a cooperative negotiation - where both
sides
win...
Well, the fact is Microsoft vs. Open-source, RIAA vs. P2P, is about the
same thing that's fucking Journals and information-confined websites.
And nobody can say where the thing is going to. Maybe we must choose a
side
to promote, maybe we should move to moon. Dont't know yet.
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