The previous round of wealth in this economy was built on selling precious copies, so the free flow of free copies tends to undermine the established order. If reproductions of our best efforts are free, how can we keep going? To put it simply, how does one make money selling free copies? Kevin Kelly has an answer: When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied. Well, what can’t be copied? From a study of the network economy there he sees roughly eight categories of intangible value that we buy when we pay for something that could be free.
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