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Re:Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threa... by coldpie on Thursday June 11, 2020 @11:27AM (#23489866)
It's a good question, and I don't know. Perhaps some model like Patreon; perhaps just having voluntary payments (actually not dissimilar to what we have now, which seems to be working reasonably well); perhaps sponsored by wealthy individuals or corporations; perhaps something I haven't thought of. People would figure it out, and we could finally stop trying to pretend that you can prevent computers from copying bits.
Re:Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threa... by Zonulet on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:52AM (#23499791)
I am an author in the middle of my career. I make my living on book sales. Personally I would prefer not to gamble my survival on this airy assumption that "people would figure it out".