> I'd REALLY like to build into all info-browsers used on the net
(irc
> clients, mud clients, HTML browsers, news readers, mail
readers, etc) a
> "donate moolah" feature, such that if I particularly
appreciated a
> particular [thing] I could donate a particular [amount] to that
particular
> [producer of said thing].
Major fault in the plan, Dwayne-o. How do you know that the
person who has it on their web site hasn't plagiarized it from
someone else's website just to get money from you of the "donate
moolah" function? So you might be paying a plagiarist instead of
a creator. That's why I was saying in my vision of a post-IP
future, patronage will be a private arrangement for the patron's
personal consumption.
> This entire discussion is, of course, taking as read that there
will still
> be artists creating material objects....
You can't kill art. Oppressive governments have tried; it doesn't
work too well.
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