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It's great idea in theory, but piracy will happen no matter if your big or medium sized.

Not disagreeing with the idea in principle, just stating a reality.

Good point. Especially when no one can censor content, "piracy" will be easy.

On the other hand we see elsewhere that people don't make a pure economic calculation when it comes to choice to get unauthorized copies. For example you can torrent films at a click of a button, yet many still get a subscription for a service where you have comparatively limited choice plus ads on top of it.

Simplest explanation of this would be that people get subscription because it's the "right thing to do".

Perhaps solution would then be to allow creators to signal to the reader what the correct price is (even in a situation where there is no paywall). Then reader could Zap The Recommended Amount. He would have an indication of what the "right thing to do" is.

We wouldn't be in a situation where people Zap 50 sats and think "hey, I am helping!"

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Merdellow 2y ago

It's all great in theory, but their is going to be a sizeable amount of people who will want something for nothing as we have been conditioned to expect that and others have different morals.

Again I'm not disagreeing with your idea.

The way I view piracy is it's at least free publicity/marketing and could in theory work into what your describing above as subscription /donation hybrid thing. You just have to accept it as a cost in business calculations if your creating digital content. If people knew their fav creator was one payment away from homelessness and shutting down their content creation for good they would chip in, even people who pirate if what they made was quality. Such as the life of a starving artist/content creator.

Vitor raised a good point and it's good to brainstorm ideas and try to find solutions, but this is a long standing problem that others have tackled without success, but it's great to have these discussions and is why I keep coming back to Nostr as the posting quality is of the charts