For example Night of the Living Dead and Starcraft are both content that you once needed to pay for but are now free.
Edit: The amount might be a little low. How much money would it take for you to say yes?
omg yes, with zero hesitation! that’s a ludicrous sum of money, I could finally go back to the dentist! 😭
I wish people made every corner of the internet as hostile as possible to anyone looking to use it to make money. Get the copyright, DMCA paywall types back to whatever the last platform was that they ruined. So I would love to pay nothing just to get back to a fraction of the online culture we had 15 - 20 years ago where most things were created for the sake of just creating crap to share.
Nowadays, free time means potential money for a lot of people. If they’re spending their free time making something that you benefit from, I don’t think that it’s too far-fetched that they asked to get compensation for it.
Reading this thread makes me realize that a lot of people don’t know how much free stuff is out there. Tabletop games, RPGs, music, etc. Loads of stuff
Sure. I’m basically doing that now.
Have you found any hidden gems out there?
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A good chunk of episodes from Bonanza became accidentally PD as well.
Honestly no thats a little too low price wise considering the amount of content I consume a year. Sure there are some good gems but not a year’s worth
What would be the bare minimum amount where you’d consider it?
If you weren’t explicitly excluding content that was always free, I’d consider it for $10, but by excluding that, you make it a miniscule amount of content that would be consumable.
That’s kind of what I was getting at. YouTube, itch.io, Spotify’s free tier, the radio, and so on would probably make just consuming free content pretty trivial these days.
I’d argue that Spotify’s free tier would be content that you once had to pay for but is now free, as long as you were only listening to songs that were originally only available on albums that you’d have to buy (as opposed to, for example, podcasts.)
Wouldn’t that include most streaming services though? A lot of shows and movies made for streaming services likely wouldn’t count but that still gives you a lot of content pre-2015’ish
If the streaming service has a free tier, why not?
At min maybe 25-30k I think is reasonable for losing entertainment for a year
I feel like the books might keep things interesting
Yeah that and classical music is probably what I would be primarily consuming
Yeah, I’m over 40 so “content” has little effect on me
Fair enough. I feel like a lot of people would have issue listening mostly to public domain music
No. My time is worth more than 10k and I’d rather spend it doing stuff I like to do.
Tell you what, pay off my entire debt ($28K USD) and I’ll do it for 3 years.
If everything at the library falls under free and the internet archive and wikipedia stay available then yes.
NotLD is not a great example.
George Romero literally uncensored the modern zombie. NotLD was massively successful on its own, and spawned a genre of horror literature that to this day is a dominant trend. It was a brilliant piece in a college-level production. It was a lot like Clerks, but even more so.
NotLD became public domain when they changed the name of the film from Night of the Flesh Eaters to Night of the Living Dead. While the change was obviously brilliant, the distributor didn’t include the copyright notice in the updated prints that were sent to the theater. That one mistake by someone else cost Romero untold tens to hundreds of millions of dollars.
I think we are all in favor of work being published in the public domain. As a scientist, I paid thousands of dollars per paper for everything I published to make sure they weren’t locked behind a $30 paywall. I’ve been a vocal supporter of FOSS since my first slackware install in the mid-1990s, and even before that with the cypherpunk community on usenet.
But NotLD is a counterexample of the goodness of non-copyrighted and non-patented works. It was not only done without the permission of the creator - which is key to the ethos - it is taken advantage of by every third rate company who sells a copy of it for $1.99.
I’ll just keep stealing current day content for the best of both worlds
Can I still pirate content? Or is this strictly talking about games?
Nope. You’d still have access to pretty much everything if that was the case
No, because I need too much information for work. This would render me unable to perform my work, so I would need at least the replacement salary.
Does this include for my job? Because I would lose a lot more than $10,000 in a year if I couldn’t perform my job.
