> Dwayne's FutureCulture account rhetoricized and composed the
> following:
>
> > 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?
Grrrrr. you, you, you *suck*, Greg. I thought it was a good plan. hmph.
Bubbles to the left of me, bubbles to the right of me, bursting away.
Well, it *was* a good idea. I'll get back to you.
PGP signatures?
> 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.
So you're saying that people will pay for the -creation- of art, the
-process- not the art itself? Sure, but that means that only individuals
can pay for art. you remove the mass market from the sphere of art funding,
which I think is a bit silly, really.
> > 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.
Oh, sure.
Dwayne
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