Torrent the music, tip the artists, or if the artists are no longer with us then tip their heirs or other people connected to the music
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Digital street buskers? Maybe V4V…
But imagine a scenario where an artist battles it out in the trenches, finally gets a hit, and a future Weird AL (or Weird A.I.) comes along and has an even bigger hit off the work without compensating the original artist.
Every song builds on the work of other artists without compensating them. Every musician has to hear good music to get good
If the AI version is so much better everyone prefers it over yours, so be it
Nostr's job is to make sure the AI version doesn't get all the audience just by manipulating the feed while the human version is actually more worth listening to 📈
Sure, ideas certainly don’t happen in a vacuum.
“Prefers” really isn’t the argument. Reach, distribution, network effect can game user preference.
Yeah, nostr is great signal filter.
Platforms like Facebook will help people steal music where their version gets way more audience than something they ripped off without really making it much better
But hopefully people seeing that happen will naturally migrate to nostr and it will happen less
Without IP laws, people will feel more responsible for their own choices and less like "the corporations are in charge and have all the money and nothing I do matters"
“Without IP laws, people will feel more responsible for their own choices...”
That’s certainly a positive take, there’s a cynical one as well. It’s all so layered on top of a lot of tectonic socioeconomics.
The cynical side is that it might not be enough, but IP laws definitely don't work so this would be worth a try if we ever get leaders who are serious about leadership (not our current figureheads whose entire goal would be to make sure the new system is even worse than IP laws)
Probably not a top down thing right? More likely that technology/innovation just outright breaks the law and eventually nullifies its reason for existence.
Good point, figureheads probably wouldn't even be talking about abolishing IP law if we the people weren't abolishing it ourselves