Submission + - Ex-Pirate Bay Admin Launches Micropayment Service (bbc.co.uk)
spyrochaete writes: "Peter Sunde, formerly "brokep" of The Pirate Bay, recently launched a beta version of Flattr — a micropayment service enabling internet users to tender cash payments to any participating content publisher. Its model enables users to divvy monthly subscription fees as donations awarded to the musicians, bloggers, photographers, or other publisher of their choice.
Sunde tells the BBC, "We want to encourage people to share money as well as content," and asserts, "people love things and they want to pay."
It is said that everything is worth whatever the market is willing to pay for it. Will this freeform ideal of arbitrary compensation catch on?"
Sunde tells the BBC, "We want to encourage people to share money as well as content," and asserts, "people love things and they want to pay."
It is said that everything is worth whatever the market is willing to pay for it. Will this freeform ideal of arbitrary compensation catch on?"
