I’d shove my cock down to your throat but I don’t fuck with nazis like you. Plus, you would enjoy being gagged a bit too much for my liking. Go fuck your father and play in traffic.
If there was no intellectual property, what would prevent a company like Amazon to simply sell any work every published in their best monopoly marketplace without ever giving a cent to the creators? How would, for instance, the author if a novel make money?
Donations and crowdfunds are the most common suggestions.
Or to come at it from another angle - 38% of the USA’s GDP comes from IP, and its primary beneficiaries are wealthy. If we paid towards a UBI instead of copyright holders, then many people would just make these things for free, with total creative freedom. The messages in our art and direction of our technology would radically change.
That’s just numbers they throw out to please investors. These companies live from that, most likely a huge chunk of those were bots and forced sign ups from Instagram.
I think the real question is: how many installs did he get? That’s the real metric of how many real-life people are using it, since there’s no browser-mode.
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