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Post by NoGravitas »

computerdork wrote: post #379
ilikegreen wrote: post #307

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I think a lot has happened since the 90's, and you rightfully point out that there was very little money in music to begin with. Labels generally always took a very large fraction of a physical CD sale, for example, so the model was rather rigged from the beginning (and recorded music doesn't have that long of a history, anyway). In general, I'd argue that Spotify will be more toxic to the industry (or the artists' l…

Yeah, usually, have also read that the only ones to make music on Spotify are major artists. They take a huge chunk of the the money distributed to musicians. At least for me, have never heard of any musician making a living off of their Spotify sales, not even close. And Bandcamp does seem nice, wish it took off more. And yes, I do completely agree with you that there are some big positives with today's music landsc…

Even well-known artists don't make meaningful amounts of money off of Spotify if they're not currently topping the charts. Year before last, I think it was, "Weird Al" Yankovic announced that he had made enough off of Spotify that year to buy "a pretty nice sandwich".

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Post by polytely »

bawolff wrote: post #337
mk_stjames wrote: post #298

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Interesting to see that sci-hub is about 90TB and libgen-non-fiction is 77.5TB. To me, these are the two archives that really need protecting because this is the bulk of scientific knowledge - papers and textbooks. I keep about 16TB of personal storage space in a home server (spread over 4 spinning disks). The idea of expanding to ~200 TB however seems... intimidating. You're looking at ~qty 12 16TB disks (not counti…

A lot of these are (relatively large) pdfs, right? I wonder how much space it is as highly compressed, deduplicated, plain text files. Does the sum of human scientific knowledge fit on a large hard drive?

there is post of Anna's archive blog about exactly that, we basically have to hold on until (open source) OCR solutions are good enough and then it suddenly starts to become feasible to have all the world's published knowledge on your computer

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Post by _DeadFred_ »

msp26 wrote: post #361
lolive wrote: post #140

I choose the books I buy, from Anna's Archive. I choose the comics I buy from readComicsOnline. I choose the [european] graphic novels I buy from #WONTTELL. And I am one of the best customers of these 3 physical shops, in my town. So sure, I don't buy the latest trends based on ads. I investigate a lot to buy GREAT stuff. Sometimes the shopkeeper has headaches to find the obscure stuff I discovered online that NOBODY…

The french comic pirate scene has an interesting rule where they keep a ~6 month time lag on what they release. The scene is small enough that the rule generally works. It's a really good trade-off. I would never have gotten into these comics without piracy but now if something catches my eye, I don't mind buying on release (and stripping the DRM for personal use). Most of my downloading is closer to collecting/hoard…

So copyright just with a shorter time limit?

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Post by slt2021 »

Vektorceraptor wrote: post #445
slt2021 wrote: post #138

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they already work almost for free, since all the money goes to the publisher and retailer. out of $20 book, the authors earn about $1 - $1.5, for e-books its about $1.7 - $2 The value from book sales goes to retailer and publisher: two large corporations, and in case of amazon - a single big corporation so please cry me a river about amazon's lost profits earned at the back of the book authors

This is a problem of publishers and retailers, and not a justification for distribution of mind theft.

yes, exactly, annas-archive is the modern robin-hood that frees up the knowledge.

it is not a theft, because people using annas-archive were not going to buy a book in the first place and publishers incomes didnt drop due to annas-archive

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Post by bawolff »

vasco wrote: post #470
bawolff wrote: post #334

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Yeah. I personally think the original bitcoin whitepaper is a work of genius. Balancing the soft game theory incentives with hard cryptography garuntees is really cool. I'd love to see more systems exploring this combination approach. There is a saying about not being able to solve a social problem with technology. Bitcoin is the blueprint on how to do that. Its everything that came after that point that is the probl…

> There is a saying about not being able to solve a social problem with technology. Bitcoin is the blueprint on how to do that. What problem did we solve with bitcoin?

The distributed double spend problem.

I'm not here to argue that its a useful problem to solve, just that the solution is ingenious, and i think the methods used potentially have applications to other problems.

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Post by dartharva »

kelnos wrote: post #219
MYEUHD wrote: post #192

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IIRC it was shown that piracy increases sales for books. For example, if you pirated an ebook and liked it, you'd likely buy a physical copy.

That's absurd. I could potentially believe the conclusion that piracy doesn't take away from sales (that is, most people who pirate would otherwise do without, and not buy a copy). But the idea that many/most (or even some significantly-small percentage) of people who pirate will buy copies of the things they like? No, that doesn't pass the sniff test.

The official EU study that proves exactly this is just one google search away, but here: https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_s...

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Post by dartharva »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #114

> In recent weeks we’ve seen increased attacks on our mission. A pretty rich thing to say when your mission is piracy. I'm not against piracy at all, quite the contrary, but this is quite laughable.

It is literally bringing knowledge to several dis-privileged people across the world who would have otherwise not had any access to it. It's a work of the lord if there ever was any.

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Post by mrguyorama »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #364
Aurornis wrote: post #322

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> Am I an exception? Years ago I was following development of an indie game. The developers wanted to provide a DRM-free experience. The game had some online functionality (leaderboard or something). They were surprised when the number of accounts accessing the online functionality exceeded their sales by a dramatic number. The developer updates grew more and more sad as they switched from discussing new features to…

Your story sounds like "World of Goo," which reported a 90% piracy rate from comparing unique IP addresses to number sold. Despite that, they didn't quit and recently released "World of Goo 2" still DRM free.

>comparing unique IP addresses to number sold

Wouldn't that be beyond a flawed system? I would count as a "new unique" player every few weeks.

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Post by hinkley »

subscribed wrote: post #467
hinkley wrote: post #193

I was reading a book series from my local library and for reasons I don’t understand they were missing the third or fourth book in the series. Probably damaged or lost. I even thought I could check the local (especially used) bookstores, buy a copy and then gift it to the library, but there’s a new edition that has a completely different vibe and size, with 2024 prices so I thought better of it. So I’d heard of Anna’…

I was firmly in the anti-audiobook camp until I heard the Dune (don't remember whose adaptation). Amazing experience. I still much prefer books (ebooks, because I can carry thousand to choose from when I inevitably finish the one I read), but I have since listened to several audiobooks and I really like how different yet oddly familiar it is, compared to reading.

There are books I feel I should read but never could sit through, and that's where I got started. I'm terrible at picking meter out of poetry, so I tried several times to start Homer and got four pages in before I wanted to gouge my eyes out. Finally listened to it during my daily commute.

Did a lot more while landscaping and walking for distance. Now I have a few favorites I just go through repeatedly when doing errands.

I had a friend who just ripped the audio track off of her favorite movies for road trips.

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