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Hence the emergence of Kickstarter

...and similar platforms. The internet has enabled easy access to a business model that builds financial support and interest for high-cost creative works in an entirely voluntary way, instead of relying on a government-granted monopoly privilege to convince people that a zero-marginal-cost infinitely reproducible product has an arbitrarily calculated non-zero value.