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Something to read for later
Posted By Sam
http://www.metafilter.com/69637/The-Internet-is-a-Copy-Machine
Mar 6th, 2008
From the main link:
Yet the previous round of wealth in this economy was built on selling precious copies, so the free flow of free copies tends to undermine the established order. If reproductions of our best efforts are free, how can we keep going? To put it simply, how does one make money selling free copies?
I have an answer. The simplest way I can put it is thus:
When copies are super abundant, they become worthless.
When copies are super abundant, stuff which can’t be copied becomes scarce and valuable.
Not really great insight so far…
Actually there is some interesting stuff there and I particularly liked the comments on the blue:
The future of a copyrightless world has a sharp divide between the creators of work, and those that have to the capital to monetize it.
A capital and labor divide you say - how very Victorian.