Fascinating discussion and this gets at the crux of why so many of us are so excited about #lightning and #nostr.

I agree with #[2] that v4v may be the solution to this conundrum. It’s not free, but it’s not the same as an arbitrary subscription or paywall either. Instead it allows the consumer of information to pay very little or exactly as much as as is requested for that piece of work. This should have the effect that quality information will be paid very handsomely by a few or the very small contributions of many add up to a lot. Filler and low quality information will die because it can no longer hide behind a subscription or ads.

To an extent, this in itself resolves the issue around IP you’re pointing out #[3] because these payments will often be small and frictionless that stealing the content elsewhere is disincentivized. Does it fully resolve the issue? Maybe not.

However, I think another thing we underestimate and can not yet imagine the extent of is how willing people will become to reward adequately the author of information they value, as we enter the era of sound money.

My question is, how do we incentivize this behavior with technology even further by making it east and frictionless? One example of even more extreme v4v I’ve thought about is, you only pay as far as you scroll. I.e. if you search through the doc and only read one page, you only end up paying for fraction of the content. But that’s just the beginning.