Who's doing this to my internet?
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Who's doing this to my internet?
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#2Basically, a basic income would solve this since people are doing it because they need money to survive.
Sometimes I think that money is corrupting everything and in the future it will be seen as an aberration.
Hard to tell.
EDIT: It's not money directly than corrupts human to do not do the right things. It's forcing people the earn money to survive.
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#3This timeline is a little skewed. Google+ started in 2011, way before Project Loom was announced. SOPA was introduced to the house in 2011 as well.
And none of this is new. Before SOPA and PIPA, the DMCA raised similar discussions. Ads have been degrading the experience at least since Tripod introduced popups. And the Tumblr arguments are almost the same as back when Geocities was bought - in fact, by the same company!
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#4Basically, a basic income would solve this since people are doing it because they need money to survive. Sometimes I think that money is corrupting everything and in the future it will be seen as an aberration. Hard to tell. EDIT: It's not money directly than corrupts human to do not do the right things. It's forcing people the earn money to survive.
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#5Really enjoyed this post, but I think some of her thoughts point to the root of the problem.
> I started by trying to buy each of them separately.
> $1.50 is a lot to pay for a song
So she wanted to compensate each artist for the songs she loved, but only at an amount of her choosing? I'm assuming she was expecting 99 cents, so we're essentially haggling over $0.50 here. This shows why the advertising model is so prevalent- people don't want to pay for content, even if it's a song that the person listens to 10 times a day.
That being said, the giving credit card info to an unknown domain is a real concern and I totally understand that. But it was mentioned second, after price, which feels more like justification for not being willing to pay $1.50 for a song.
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#6Basically, a basic income would solve this since people are doing it because they need money to survive. Sometimes I think that money is corrupting everything and in the future it will be seen as an aberration. Hard to tell. EDIT: It's not money directly than corrupts human to do not do the right things. It's forcing people the earn money to survive.
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#7Another song I loved by an artist I loved was available for sale, but on a tiny third-party music distribution site I'd never heard of, and for $1.50. $1.50 is a lot to pay for a song
And then OP wonders why everyone is making free services plastered with ads instead of charging.
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#8Basically, a basic income would solve this since people are doing it because they need money to survive. Sometimes I think that money is corrupting everything and in the future it will be seen as an aberration. Hard to tell. EDIT: It's not money directly than corrupts human to do not do the right things. It's forcing people the earn money to survive.
I don't think this is being done for survival; I think it's being done because it can be done and it's asymmetrically lucrative.
Petty theft of a jar of peanut butter may well be solved by a basic income. Ad-free internet business models will not be created by a basic income.
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#9Basically, a basic income would solve this since people are doing it because they need money to survive. Sometimes I think that money is corrupting everything and in the future it will be seen as an aberration. Hard to tell. EDIT: It's not money directly than corrupts human to do not do the right things. It's forcing people the earn money to survive.
The people that are buying up these sites and walling them off hardly need more money. The blandness of profit-driven sites has nothing to do with the incentives of artists and everything to do with mindless "optimization" towards the middle by non-artists.
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#10Ah, the good old days of....2012. It's tough to make it past the first few paragraphs.