The problem there is that as soon as the nature of the hosting of RKO changes, then the nature of the relationship between RKO and its donor changes. Plus as soon as you charge for delivering a product (premium access to RKO), the nature of the relationship to the audience changes: namely, they feel they own you. Suddenly outages become a big thing, for instance. I don't think Jan would want that level of responsibility, and I wouldn't wish it on him
Maybe a sort of itunes for RKO... but then you've got the next problem of getting permission from the remixers for "commercial" exploitation of their work. After all, some of them may not like me that much
And if a paid mirror of RKO run by me is set up, then you're suddenly looking at a risk: the fixed cost of webspace and the cost of bandwidth that has to be made up by an unknown number of paying clients. The potential for loss is already there.
I like that the ideas keep coming, and I hope no one gets upset at my pessimistic outlook: it's amazing how many good ideas can be spiked by legal issues or human nature
The mobile content area is the one that seems to hold the most promise, but I also need money from that to actually live on and repay my personal debts as well as funding anything as grand as a BIT Live.
I think in general, a donation should be just that: a donation. It may be harder, but at least then people know where the money is going and what it's for. And I think any such fund should be run by someone else explicitly for BIT Live, and not for me. Then even if something happens to me, someone else would pick up the baton. After all, what if I took £5000 in donations and went bankrupt? There would be some seriously hacked off donators, I'm telling you
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