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Post-copyright: Digital Cash and Compulsory Licensing?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dream-on dept.

gojomo writes "AaronSw offers a compelling idea: use anonymous transferable digital cash to allocate the monies collected for creators in a compulsory licensing scheme, to avoid some of the potential problems outlined by other compulsory critiques. LawMeme calls it a "Proto Whuffie" but expects fake artists to sign up for the loot. I might call it "voucher socialism" -- but that's not necessarily a bad thing."

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  1. Help help! I'm turning into a goat! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. I thought we had open minds here. by Thinkit3 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But when you say "socialism", you assumed people would think it is a bad thing.

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    -Libertarian secular transhumanist
  3. almost by sirtimbly · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    almost first post... ...this 20 second wait is killing me! ...Ugh, now a 2 minte wat because I just posted. The suspense.... I think I'm starting to hyperventilate!

    --
    Sir Timbly of Cannatuna, offical Knight of the Heptagonal Table
  4. I am so ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... k3wl, no-one can haxx0r my PeeCee, hehe?

    Try it: 66.35.250.150

    WIOTS. TRIATB.

  5. Re:Wesley Clark's running! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Maybe he's the candidate the Democrats have been looking for. Maybe he will have a chance - if the 2004 elections are going to be fair. This I seriously doubt.

    The neocon-military-industrial-entertainment-clique has too much to lose at this stage. They already gambled the 1992 elections and lost. They won't make the same mistake again. They've already lied about the Iraq incursion amd they are about to bomb the shit out of Iran and possibly North Korea before the elections to rally the people behind the current "president".

    I predict they'll cheat in 2004. They'll win and get completely out of control and we'll have a civil war in our hands by 2004 or 2005. Get ready for it. I know a lot of you geeks prepared for Y2K in spite of your "nothing's gonna happen" bravado. This time the equipment and training is gonna pay off. All I can say is, get friendly with us military types. We may not be your ideal geek friends but we sure can appreciate a smart mind just like you know that when the shit hits the fan you've better have someone who knows how to fight.

  6. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How can the very first post ever be redundant? Troll maybe, but moderators should look up redundant in the dictionary.

  7. Mod the parent up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Mod the parent up!

    He may sound alarmist but that's the state of the nation...

  8. Let's try this: tax the rich, feed the poor. by ahfoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sales tax is not progressive. Income tax is potentially a progressive tax although it sure hasn't worked that way in the US in recent years. But upping sales tax is inexcuseable further burden on the poor.