omg yes, with zero hesitation! that's a ludicrous sum of money, I could finally go back to the dentist! 😭

I wish people made every corner of the internet as hostile as possible to anyone looking to use it to make money. Get the copyright, DMCA paywall types back to whatever the last platform was that they ruined. So I would love to pay nothing just to get back to a fraction of the online culture we had 15 - 20 years ago where most things were created for the sake of just creating crap to share.

Reading this thread makes me realize that a lot of people don't know how much free stuff is out there. Tabletop games, RPGs, music, etc. Loads of stuff

No. My time is worth more than 10k and I'd rather spend it doing stuff I like to do.

Sure. I'm basically doing that now.

Honestly no thats a little too low price wise considering the amount of content I consume a year. Sure there are some good gems but not a year's worth

Tell you what, pay off my entire debt ($28K USD) and I'll do it for 3 years.

NotLD is not a great example.

George Romero literally invented the modern zombie. NotLD was massively successful on its own, and spawned a genre of horror literature that to this day is a dominant trend. It was a brilliant piece in a college-level production. It was a lot like Clerks, but even more so.

NotLD became public domain when they changed the name of the film from Night of the Flesh Eaters to Night of the Living Dead. While the change was obviously brilliant, the distributor didn’t include the copyright notice in the updated prints that were sent to the theater. That one mistake by someone else cost Romero untold tens to hundreds of millions of dollars.

I think we are all in favor of work being published in the public domain. As a scientist, I paid thousands of dollars per paper for everything I published to make sure they weren’t locked behind a $30 paywall. I’ve been a vocal supporter of FOSS since my first slackware install in the mid-1990s, and even before that with the cypherpunk community on usenet.

But NotLD is a counterexample of the goodness of non-copyrighted and non-patented works. It was not only done without the permission of the creator - which is key to the ethos - it is taken advantage of by every third rate company who sells a copy of it for $1.99.

If everything at the library falls under free and the internet archive and wikipedia stay available then yes.

10,000 in my currency (yen) is only like 68 USD, so no. Even 10k USD seems a little low, probably not worth the effort in the end.

Does abandonware count? If yes, then absolutely lol

My childhood was spent playing abandonware because our home pc wasn't strong enough for modern games at the time, so this is basically just reliving that while getting paid lol.

If abandonware doesn't count, there's still enough stuff that's ended up in the public domain to make it worth it (books and movies).

I'd do it for $25K.

That would be enough to travel the world for a year.

Whats included in 'content'? Is video games included? What about software? If software is included I'm pretty sure you can't really use any electronic devices, since I'm unaware of any now public domain oses that aren't huge vulnerabilities.

Easily. I'm tired of this endless search for "content", a single library is got more books than you could ever read in a lifetime - I'm sure you can find public domain stuff to suit all your needs (specially since you're including freeware here)

Can I still pirate content? Or is this strictly talking about games?

I’ll just keep stealing current day content for the best of both worlds

For a year? Honestly, that might be worth doing for free just as an experiment.

I mean, look at Project Gutenberg. Easily a year's worth of top-tier books I have not read.

There's a ton of great freeware and FOSS games, too.

No idea what the movie situation is like tbh, but if it turned into a year where I just don't want watch movies, that seems doable. Again, something that might be worth doing for a year just as an experiment.

Oh wait, I misread. It's formerly paid content that is now free, not including things that were always free? I guess that still includes most of Project Gutenberg but no idea how it affects gaming or movies.

Does this include for my job? Because I would lose a lot more than $10,000 in a year if I couldn't perform my job.

I'd be willing to do it for free, but sure, I'll take your money.

Been doing that for years already, so sure

If we are only talking about entertainment, then yes. There are a ton of old books I eventually would like to read and having a dedicated year for them while getting paid for it would help with the motivation.

But if we are talking about all kinds of content, like news, reviews, tutorials, etc. Then the answer would be no.

I would say around 100k is where I am fine with taking off an entire year from everything. Then I would start traveling and basically not care about consuming content and just do all of the stuff I wanted to try. With 100k I think I don't need to much planning and researching and still have enough after the year to resume a normal life.

Yes.

I mean, I'd be very bored with that content, so I'd see it more as getting paid 10k to stop consuming media for a year.

It would be a good excuse to do more writing, and getting out and socializing.

I mean I'm already kind of doing this reading super old books but 10k isn't worth the hassle if I find myself in the mood for something else.

Idk , I tried to replace the apps I use with open source ones , except bank and grocery apps , but if mods like youtube vanced count for yt premium and music then yes !

$10K is a lot to pay, but if you can ensure I am doing it legally, then I guess I could pay that. I would like all of the pay stuff blocked though, no ads or anything. Is it 10K per person, or per family?

10k just for not paying for stuff? I can still watch youtube, play free games. But can I buy board games or books though? Or go out to restaurants? Buy groceries?

Answering the intent of the question: no I don’t think so as that would rule out 99% of stuff we all watch and play these days.

Answering the literal phrasing of the question: these types of “would you do X for Y dollars” questions are suspect because the impact of the amount of money is subjective and entirely dependent on your personal situation. Readers who are broke and readers who are millionaires will have entirely different thoughts due to their own financial situations, and so the answers are unlikely to be informative. As opposed to something more objective like, “do you think you could deal with only consuming free content for a year”.

Are we including things like Epic game freebies, that were paid, went to free, then went back to paid?

And are we including video and audio? Because there is very little out there that is truly free, unless you’re including any services like YouTube and Hulu where you can access their content with the support of ads?

I presume in your hypothetical scenario I wouldn't be allowed to pirate paid content or even watch it at a friend's or play/read thanks to someone else. It'd be just magically out of my reach.

I might do it for 10k, if it's USD. If it's AUD I'd be on the fence, probably not although it depends on my finances.

the caveat is that it had to once cost money? so stuff that has always been free is no longer available?

Wait, StarCraft is now free?

Well where do I sign up?...

Definitely, 10k usd in my country is enough for a down payment for a house. I can get by with free books with no problem (I already read books anyways). I'd miss watching shows, reading manga, and other things but there are tons of paid --> free stuff out there.

I was doing that anyway in my early 20s. Now I'll do it for $50,000.