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In general, if I don’t have to pay someone to produce something I can provide a better experience to my customers than those who do.

It’s why archive.is is so much better to read on than a news site.

Might as well ask “when I engage with GPL projects it’s so much worse of an experience than if I just bundle the code and distribute it without a license, why?” It’s often cheaper to not comply than to comply.

But my kindle has definitely been “good enough” for me with Libby.



> In general, if I don’t have to pay someone to produce something I can provide a better experience to my customers

Amazon theoretically makes money with which they pay people to make the user experience good.

Pirates have... a few nerds with some spare time?


It doesn’t matter. A straightforward example is that no matter how much UX you do, you can’t offer a listing that the creator sold exclusively to someone else.

But fortunately, with AI content starting to become better we will be able to transform regular people into IP maximalists arguing that copyright protection schemes should be embedded even more than they are today.


Regarding archive.is:

I use it too, but people work hard writing articles. How will they earn money if no one pays them?


Yeah it’s a classic tragedy of the commons. Any individual gains from piracy. C’est la vie. As HNers are proud to say: Your business model is not my problem.




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