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If the creation is the part that matters why would they want to keep selling instead of taking a page out of indie game dev collectives or open source projects

by Shoue 5y ago

If the creation is the part that matters why would they want to keep selling instead of taking a page out of indie game dev collectives or open source projects like Godot and Blender who earn salaries through Patreon-like monetisation strategies? Then piracy basically becomes a non-issue because it's the labour that matters, not paying for an artificially scarce digital copy. This seems like a pretty easy "best of both worlds" approach, no?

mminer237 5y ago
It is way easier to get funding through licensing fees than non-deductible donations.
- account42 5y ago
  Only because everyone else is paying for enforcing those licensing fees. That copyright makes things easy in a society built around copyright doesn't really say much.