assorted observations and collected inspirations.
Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan. The big content companies are TERRIBLE at doing both of these things, so it’s no wonder they’re not doing so well in the current environment.
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And if you can stand me sounding even crazier, here is this: making money from art is not a human right. It so happens that technological and societal blahbity bloos have conspired to create a situation where selling songs about monkeys and robots is a viable business, but for most of human history people have NOT paid for art.
— Though sites and services put up a visible fight, I’m way more interested in hearing from the actual artists any new anti-piracy laws supposedly protect. Jonathan Coulton provided one of the most clear-headed and useful perspectives I’ve heard so far.
