Good New Yorker article referencing Jonathan Taplin’s book Move Fast and Break Things and Franklin Foer’s World Without Mind discussing the state of affairs in the creative digital industries and the role of information in politics and society.
Who Owns the Internet?
What Big Tech’s monopoly powers mean for our culture.
Both writers take the approach of legal copyright and the effects of piracy 0n revenue streams. We believe the focus should be on how content is valued and monetized through network effects. Taplin alludes to this when he suggests a streaming service as a non-profit cooperative (why non-profit?).
Such a streaming/lending service is consistent with the tuka ecosystem model and the revenues generated would be distributed accordingly to the content creators, profitably. This is an essential part of how content is distributed these days according to how consumers want to consume it. The network data generated by the ecosystem can also be monetized through advertising and ancillary marketing, supplementing the decreased income users receive from sales.
This recognizes that the primary roadblock to a thriving ecosystem is the connection costs associated with excessive supply of unfiltered content. This is a problem for consumers as well as creators. Solving that problem helps solve the revenue problem.
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