A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

Post by xtian » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 2:43 AM UTC

misnome wrote: post #71

xtian wrote: post #61

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No one is entitled to a particular form of revenue. We live in an attention-based economy. Talented and savvy authors can find any number of ways to derive revenue from the attention their work attracts apart from charging IP tolls. If not, they can always get a job where they have no ownership stake in the fruits of their labor, like almost every other job and 99.9% of people writing code for money.

This exact argument can be used to justify both POV. No one is entitled to have any particular piece of media available to them for free, either? Talented and savvy consumers can find any number of ways to make money to pay for media, like 99.9% of other consumers.

Post by tredre3 » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 2:46 AM UTC

altilunium wrote: post #78

I wonder why the very concept of public library is not illegal at the first place.. I mean, imagine this concept is being popularized at first in the modern era. I'm pretty sure there's a huge opposition, using the very same argument as digital pirates & AI art debate : "It could damage author's income! People will just go read it for free in public library instead of buying it! Public library is morally wrong and sh…

Post by survirtual » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 2:53 AM UTC

oldgregg wrote: post #46

survirtual wrote: post #35

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Anything is possible, but having some limited github interactions with the core team, that seems unlikely. My impression is that they are a passionate group that hit the jackpot a bit prematurely. Their intentions seemed good to me they just have an ungodly amount of financing while perhaps lacking a core vision & understanding of what is at stake. Put another way, seems more like an academic building something rathe…

I certainly wouldn't disparage the talent- no doubt vast majority have good intentions but unfortunately they are being paid handsomely to have their work be rendered ineffective. Gobble up all the best P2P devs and get them focused on work that is largely ineffective. Lots of code and specs but nothing really usable. Code is not very original, they just take other libraries and tweak them. mplex is their version of…

Post by realusername » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 2:55 AM UTC

ROTMetro wrote: post #42

tmpburning wrote: post #32

Can't wait for someone to come up for a solution to copyright that will benefit everyone.

So, you mean, the current copyright solution? That has seen creation of works skyrocket? Or do you mean a system where people can steal what they want because 'reasons' and 'they want to pay less because xyz'? Do you propose a system that takes ownership from authors and redistributes their works maybe? Why shouldn't owners get to set the pricing? Just because people want to steal doesn't mean it's ok to. Just becaus…

Post by gnarbarian » Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 2:56 AM UTC

tredre3 wrote: post #83

altilunium wrote: post #78

I wonder why the very concept of public library is not illegal at the first place.. I mean, imagine this concept is being popularized at first in the modern era. I'm pretty sure there's a huge opposition, using the very same argument as digital pirates & AI art debate : "It could damage author's income! People will just go read it for free in public library instead of buying it! Public library is morally wrong and sh…

> imagine this concept is being popularized at first in the modern era. I'm pretty sure there's a huge opposition Video rentals have been popularized in the modern era. Netflix mail rentals have been popularized in the even more modern era. I'm sure some copyright holders argued that they should be burned down, but clearly there wasn't a "huge opposition" to it?