If you run a bridge which shares my posts with other social networks and sites, you agree to pay me £1000* for each instance of each post that you bridge.
I’ve made it opt-out - just configure your system not to bridge my posts.
It’s fine to have paying me as the default, you see, as you can opt out if you wish.
Edit: I’ve had some feedback, and I’ll be considering supporting different ways for you to pay me.
* £975 if you put #MyFriendBillyHasATwoFootWilly in your profile.
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Ted
in reply to Neil Brown • • •Tattooed Mummy
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Unknown parent • • •Andy H3
in reply to Neil Brown • •Friendica nodes are protocol versatile and in effect act as bridges.
If a node admin has enabled multiple protocols, than by default users quoting share your posts may distribute them across a range of networks that use federated and unfederated protocols.
@Neil Brown
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Martin Seeger
in reply to Neil Brown • • •I guess collecting the money will be significantly more expensive than 1000 pounds in terms of time & effort.
You should probably raise prices...
Andy H3
Unknown parent • •@Neil Brown
Happy days! 🎉
I must have run up quite a bill 😲, sharing some of your posts with my contacts across the Friendica and diaspora* networks.
Martin Seeger
Unknown parent • • •RevK :verified_r:
in reply to Neil Brown • • •whilst I totally appreciate the point you are making…
I have to ponder legality, or more to the point the extent to which copyright law is rather ill equipped for a lot of things these days…
A post will be “copied” a lot, and that is the intent of “publishing” using this protocol.
But there is no reason, I assume, one cannot put conditions of doing so, and even charges, much like an EULA, even if “usually free”.
But copyright law is badly suited for digital age.
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Alyn
in reply to Neil Brown • • •Andy H3
in reply to Neil Brown • •Strypey
Unknown parent • • •> I haven't defederated with anyone today
Great news. But I'm also curious about the answer to @alyn's question;
> What is the objective difference between a bridge and any other federated server (e.g. a Misskey instance) that grabs your toot and makes it available to another audience?
Maybe this is your point, and you're referencing drama elsewhere in the verse. If so, link(s) for context please?
Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel
in reply to Neil Brown • • •Andy H3
in reply to Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel • •It should be possible to selectively block certain nodes.
Many nodes are blocking
*threads.netwhich means that they will neither accepts posts from this network nor push own posts over there.@Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @Neil Brown
Kevin Marks
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Dragon
in reply to Neil Brown • • •Tony Hoyle
in reply to Neil Brown • • •I don't see why a centralised gatekeeper.. why not something admins can install on their own server or not. Then it's down to local policies to deal with. The way they did it becomes a single point of failure.
I'm not against following things on bluesky and reciprocating by having them follow me but I'm leery of that depending on a single instance being up that could start charging once people depend on it.. and nobody has the right to make that choice for others.
grin
in reply to Neil Brown • • •By reading this you agree to pay EUR 10000 to me, effective immediately. You can opt out freely unless you have read any parts of this message.
@algernon
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HighlandLawyer
in reply to grin • • •Ticket case!
(Civil law jurisdictions also have analogous provisions on prior notice of conditions required to obtain consensus in idem)
grin
in reply to HighlandLawyer • • •@HighlandLawyer
Some "if you open this you agree" types of agreements make it impossible to get know the exact subject of the contract before the agreement. Funny stuff.
I haven't even considered real legal aspects of neither this nor the original, it would be a rather lengthy discussion of "why not".
@neil @algernon
Strypey
Unknown parent • • •> It's a play on the Sony rootkit meme from years ago
I got the general gist. What I was and am still unclear on is whether you're in favour of bridging, and satirising its opponents, or making a statement against bridging.
@alyn
Daniel Pache⚓
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Unknown parent • • •Puffer
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