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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:43PM (#23617457)
Is it illegal if you sell an item/service/upgrade for a clearly absurd price?

The obvious workaround here is to paywall some tiny feature with choose-your-own-price, or perhaps offer something akin to Reddit Gold. I presume the law already thought of that?

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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by rmc on Thursday June 25, 2020 @03:16AM (#23637753)
Surely there's a difference between ”Buy this PNG file for €200” and “Buy it for €10,000,000”
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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by wongarsu on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:24PM (#23618079)
Lots of brands sell things with prices only justifiable by the branding and associated prestige.

The authors tactic of paywalling things behind a "donation" seems legally much more dubious.

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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by Ndymium on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:31PM (#23619819)
It wouldn't be a donation, it would be a premium account that has access to extra features. I just don't want those features to make the free users feel second class.
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