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Imagine if we could hook up Bittorrent and Bitcoin somehow, and made it so you could create a torrent of your work and get some money when people download.
And then people who seed it could maybe get a little cut for helping to host things. And you'd buy tokens and you'd know that almost 100% of the money goes to the artist, and the artist has control over the entire process.
That would be neat, but I'm sure someone here will explain why this is unworkable and stupid. Which is why I posted it.
Imagine YouTube reposts stealing merger ad revenue but it's your main revenue instead.
That's definitely a hard problem we'd have to solve.
"What we need are stronger copyright laws."
- Disney lawyers, probably
Eight hours later, and no one disagreed.
I think you might be on to something
99% of revenue would go to the first copycats that can feasibly pretend the works are theirs, and dominate the space with their own seeder bots.
Democracy is nice, but…it needs a bit of regulation and enforcement. You’d end up slowly building up a lot of the rules that currently dictate digital purchases, sans corruption.
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You don't need special digital scam money to do this. You can just go buy the thing directly from the creator/the creator's agent. If the creator wanted to go through the trouble of self-publishing, they'd have just done that.