Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Why Can't You Just Pay Artists?

After reading Media Oligopolies (or, why I love BitTorrent) in Wikinomics I wonder why shows or artists don't have public paypal accounts to take "donations". If you have performances people would be willing to pay for you probably have a web page where you could post payment information. Is there an accounting issue?

Such a model apparently worked for downloads of Radiohead's In Rainbows but why does it have to be bound to a specific album?

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