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It's not the website providers business what I do with the bits reaching my network. I choose to display and render what I want, and they choose to deliver what they want. It's not complicated. That is the most fundamental principle of information technology. One decides what to send, another one decides what to receive.

If a company dies because of adblockers, let the company die. That's economy.

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In the music industry, technology and economy have worked hand in hand to 'let record companies die'. The result is that most projects nowadays are home-made, resulting in a generalized cacophony where it's so hard to find quality content that people are giving up. This is what's going to happen here as well. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Hopefully this will make people go back to real-world local structures, which are going to be profitable again.

> resulting in a generalized cacophony where it's so hard to find quality content that people are giving up.

I've never had an easier time finding great new music.

I didn't understand this either, the quality and diversity of music has never been better

I can understand that somebody being exposed to this idea for the first time would be dubious. If you'd rather hear it from some of the world's top creators, check out presspauseplay.com.

@icebraining: I never said that idea was new, all I said was that apparently everybody hasn't been exposed to it. There are a few different opinions in this documentary, from this arrogant writer who got famous with the old model and is now in love with the new one because he can deal directly with his audience, to art lovers who are humbly searching for new ways, in theory or in practice. But this isn't the subject here, and you don't provide much to support your point of view yourself, so I'll stop replying.

I don't want to hear "the world's top creators", I want to hear a few people in a basement with instruments and a MacBook.

The first time? That idea is being pushed since blogs started gaining mass recognition, if not before. Hearing famous people (particularly ones who got famous with the old model) repeat it doesn't make it true. Do they say anything interesting to support their position?

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