Earn Bitcoins for seeding
Try downloading an ebook that isn’t a best-seller, without jumping through hoops to join a private tracker. I dare you.
I am not into books, but in the past I suffered looking for some vintage porn so I know the feeling.
My point is, once there’s 2 people seeding a torrent, the cost for the uploader (aka creator, in SAFE speak) is zero.
I can put million “rare” ebooks on my 8 TB disks and seed them for $ (in BTC) each, I don’t care how much anyone else charges as long as I can cover the cost of h/w, power and management. If after deducting these costs I make just $10/year, that’s about as much as I could get by “putting my savings to work” in the bank (in the EU or Japan).
Clearly anyone else can do the same, so the “creator” can make about 10/1,,th of the dollar from seeing his “rare” book.
If everything must abide the strictest copyright rules good luck getting anyone to use the service.
If torrents are published on Tor, it might be easy, but profits will be pathetic. That, by the way, is the new sharing economy that some “new economy” thinkers have been celebrating here.
To reward the first among equals?
Yes, something like that. You scan a book, sell the first seeding for say $3, I buy it from you and immediately cut the price to $ (or $, just so that I don’t have to come back and adjust the price later). In fact I wouldn’t even pay $3, I’d just wait couple of hours until the price drops to $ The economy of abundance
Makes you wonder why would one want to scan a page book for $3 knowing he’ll sell just one copy .
I don’t know, maybe some guy from Burundi would.
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