Niall Douglas wrote:
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On 11 May 2004 at 18:09, João Miguel Neves wrote:
Yes, I've thought about it and I haven't found anything better. If you got to any other conclusion, I'd love to hear about it.
What about a system whereby all zero-copy cost human output is recompensed via general taxation? I include books, music, video (all television), software, blueprints, designs etc.
Everyone puts their work on some high capacity central servers which are available to all citizens who create an account on the servers. Each copy downloaded increments a counter for the thing downloaded.
There's a little problem with this idea. the minorities. For me this idea is just an improved copyright. Why should I make something to a minority, like blind people, if I can make something to a larger audience to gain a lot more money? Why not distribute the money "equally"? People would just do what they want, simply because they would have the money to do it. Do you really think that someone that does something for a larger audience deserves more money than other that does something for minorities? Aren't we (free software guys) a minority now? Our audience is small compared to windows audience, windows programmers should gain more than we?
[]s, gandhi