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The trouble is, somebody went and built a whole distribution model on the past practice, and now it’s being imposed on a digital environment where it’s completely unnecessary.
Digital “content” has zero transmission and reproduction cost. Any attempt to control the release of digital content, across geographical areas, at different times, is tantamount to creating artificial scarcity. And when this happens, people will find ways of getting around the artificial scarcity, creating an artificial abundance.
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JP Rangaswami on artificial scarcities and abundances.
(via artistspaid)First Law of Scarcity and Abundance:
If you create an artificial scarcity, then be prepared for someone else to create an artificial abundance