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> It will create an entirely different system.

Simple as that sounds I didn't think of it before. It seems that if all the old systems can/might/will be replaced by the mega corp we could simply set a modest fixed megacorp-tax of say 1-2% and have the rest go to the creator of the text or video.

It was the author who provided the excuse in the old system why we should pay for easily replicated data. The argument that we should pay to be able to find the data was never a thing. It might as well be but it isn't. We can generously give this party 1% for the great effort they made finding the product I wanted to purchase. (The author should probably pay the megacorp for hosting and bandwidth)

After all, the mega corp is our hostage first and we are theirs second.



Only possible if the power dynamic somehow shifts in a significant way. Maybe it will, but I'm not very optimistic.


> we could simply set a modest fixed megacorp-tax of say 1-2%

Yeah this will surely be more like 30%


The MagaCorp will spend less than that 1% "lobbying" (hear legally bribing) politicians so that will never happen.


I’m still waiting for public domain Mickey Mouse. Disney only has a couple more years to get those checks sent out.




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