Re:Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
by eropple on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @04:33PM
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Because the current market value of that content appears (for reasons that I personally find pretty bullshit, but I'm not the decision-maker here) to be a pittance.
We have, culturally, decided that art is worth very little, and this is the (inevitable? I don't know) result.
Re:Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
by nradov on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @10:28PM
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Some art costs a lot. The vast majority of art is total garbage by any subjective or objective standard, to the extent that you would have to pay people to take it (negative value). The worth of art is on something like a power law distribution.
I can't see why those users couldn't publish through a network that charges for access but guarantees a high bar of quality (both content and browsing experience). Think of something like Medium, with opt-in micropayments... possibly even mix in a social element, so friends of the creator get free access.