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omg yes, with zero hesitation! that’s a ludicrous sum of money, I could finally go back to the dentist! 😭
Reading this thread makes me realize that a lot of people don’t know how much free stuff is out there. Tabletop games, RPGs, music, etc. Loads of stuff
Very little for TV and movies, though. That’s a lot to give up for a lot of people.
I wish people made every corner of the internet as hostile as possible to anyone looking to use it to make money. Get the copyright, DMCA paywall types back to whatever the last platform was that they ruined. So I would love to pay nothing just to get back to a fraction of the online culture we had 15 - 20 years ago where most things were created for the sake of just creating crap to share.
Nowadays, free time means potential money for a lot of people. If they’re spending their free time making something that you benefit from, I don’t think that it’s too far-fetched that they asked to get compensation for it.
Its like micro transactions. No one asked for it. But once somebody spends time creating it and puts it out there the rest of us are stuck with it. I don’t need to purchase them to be impacted by the shit wake they leave.
It is insidious the way these creators take over. Don’t get me wrong. Mr. Beast seems like a really nice guy but I don’t need to scroll past 100 videos 30 ads for Prime, 25 reaction videos just to see one cool video.
Getting compensated is reasonable to the person creating content. But it sucks for the rest of us because it erodes so much of what online life should have been.
Sure. I’m basically doing that now.
Have you found any hidden gems out there?
No. My time is worth more than 10k and I’d rather spend it doing stuff I like to do.
Honestly no thats a little too low price wise considering the amount of content I consume a year. Sure there are some good gems but not a year’s worth
What would be the bare minimum amount where you’d consider it?
If you weren’t explicitly excluding content that was always free, I’d consider it for $10k, but by excluding that, you make it a miniscule amount of content that would be consumable.
That’s kind of what I was getting at. YouTube, itch.io, Spotify’s free tier, the radio, and so on would probably make just consuming free content pretty trivial these days.
At min maybe 25-30k I think is reasonable for losing entertainment for a year
I feel like the books might keep things interesting
Yeah that and classical music is probably what I would be primarily consuming
Yeah, I’m over 40 so “content” has little effect on me
Fair enough. I feel like a lot of people would have issue listening mostly to public domain music
Tell you what, pay off my entire debt ($28K USD) and I’ll do it for 3 years.
NotLD is not a great example.
George Romero literally invented the modern zombie. NotLD was massively successful on its own, and spawned a genre of horror literature that to this day is a dominant trend. It was a brilliant piece in a college-level production. It was a lot like Clerks, but even more so.
NotLD became public domain when they changed the name of the film from Night of the Flesh Eaters to Night of the Living Dead. While the change was obviously brilliant, the distributor didn’t include the copyright notice in the updated prints that were sent to the theater. That one mistake by someone else cost Romero untold tens to hundreds of millions of dollars.
I think we are all in favor of work being published in the public domain. As a scientist, I paid thousands of dollars per paper for everything I published to make sure they weren’t locked behind a $30 paywall. I’ve been a vocal supporter of FOSS since my first slackware install in the mid-1990s, and even before that with the cypherpunk community on usenet.
But NotLD is a counterexample of the goodness of non-copyrighted and non-patented works. It was not only done without the permission of the creator - which is key to the ethos - it is taken advantage of by every third rate company who sells a copy of it for $1.99.
10,000 in my currency (yen) is only like 68 USD, so no. Even 10k USD seems a little low, probably not worth the effort in the end.
I’d do it for $25K.
That would be enough to travel the world for a year.
For a year? Honestly, that might be worth doing for free just as an experiment.
I mean, look at Project Gutenberg. Easily a year’s worth of top-tier books I have not read.
There’s a ton of great freeware and FOSS games, too.
No idea what the movie situation is like tbh, but if it turned into a year where I just don’t want watch movies, that seems doable. Again, something that might be worth doing for a year just as an experiment.
Oh wait, I misread. It’s formerly paid content that is now free, not including things that were always free? I guess that still includes most of Project Gutenberg but no idea how it affects gaming or movies.
I’ll just keep stealing current day content for the best of both worlds
Easily. I’m tired of this endless search for “content”, a single library is got more books than you could ever read in a lifetime - I’m sure you can find public domain stuff to suit all your needs (specially since you’re including freeware here)
That’s a good point. Not feeling so spoiled for choice would likely encourage me to read more
If everything at the library falls under free and the internet archive and wikipedia stay available then yes.