Comments on: Bandwidth as P2P currency https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/bandwidth-as-p2p-currency/2007/09/03 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 13 Oct 2014 12:40:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Mark Whiting https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/bandwidth-as-p2p-currency/2007/09/03/comment-page-1#comment-110216 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:31:39 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/bandwidth-as-p2p-currency/2007/09/03#comment-110216 I am really interested by the greater topic of this initiative. I think the concept of shifting economy from providing information and, only partially, to creating it is not really ideal. In this regard, I think that in the long run a good system for sustainable P2P, or other network, driven society could well be monetizing all communication in a universal way. I think this could be issue prone however it could be used to create an economy where media is free for the users except for the communication which is required to get it, publishing companies including tel cos could would still exist and make some profit but not control popularity and media rights in the way they do now and finally, artists would receive the rights they deserve.

This idea is based on the assumptions that artists are passionate about what they do, publishing on a large scale is profit centric, not voice or meaning centered, and that users need to pay for communication services as it is so creating a conversion to make this payment extend to artists would not be of great disadvantage.

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