A nice write-up of post-IP business models.
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
Yes, as an orthodox Marxist-Leninist-Trotskyist-Stalinist I was hoping there would be no “business model” for Trent Reznor at all, but instead the Musical Soviets would expropriate the music tools of the kulaks (“rich musicians”), eliminate buying and selling of so-called “photo books”, “deluxe sets”, etc and force all artists to labor in grim factories run by state committees.
Always knew Longrod was a damned Bolshevik…
[...] as agent of my karmic penalty for titling one of my recent anti-IP posts “Our Communist Future,” François Tremblay has a new post in which he argues that the case I make against [...]