Re: Philosophical Quandry: Piracy
There are probably thousands of possible alternate economic systems available to open-minded people, and economics is not my favorite subject. However my personal proposal would be that there would be a tax levied which would be somewhat less than the estimated average expenditure on the media which would be made free, based on the person's disposable income. Taxpayers could then voluntarily indicate which content creators they appreciated the most, and these creators would get compensated accordingly.
People creating media would register their works, and there would be a body responsible for validating claims and approval votes, and catching liars. Personally, I would scale the system so that people working steadily creating original content would at least earn enough to support themselves, even without many appreciation votes.
PvK
[ July 11, 2003, 21:31: Message edited by: PvK ]
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