Drew DeVaultMar 31, 2020

Abolish copyright.

You can charge for material things - paper, ink, packaging material, the time of the workers to prepare it. You can even charge for bandwidth, server upkeep, and electricity. But information has no material cost and therefore cannot be sold.

Exercise civil disobedience: it's your obligiation as a good citizen to be a pirate. We can negotiate again when they change the law to make copyrighted works enter the public domain within our lifetimes.

Show threadÆnðr E. FeldstrawMar 31, 2020
@sir Also charge for the time to compile the information and the experience it takes to transform that into an educational or entertaining source.
Show threadPort-humping pupperMar 31, 2020
@aeveltstra @sir Source is free; binaries are $75
Show threadÆnðr E. Feldstraw
@portpupper @sir Not bad: it does take time and effort to learn how to compile source code into binaries. Having that returned over time in $75 increments may work out nicely.
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Show threadPort-humping pupperMar 31, 2020
@aeveltstra @sir I know #Ardour and #ZynFusion both use that model. IIRC, Ardour specifically calls out the Mac binaries are difficult to get properly tuned in a "good luck compiling it yourself" note.