Peter Sunde, recently arrested for having been the spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, is lesser known for co-creating Flattr. The fact that Flattr is often forgotten by the media is a clear illustration about how the society doesn’t protect the artists or the citizens. It is now obvious that the copyright establishment fights only to keep its own power.
For years, copyright industry lobbyists have been trying to describe pirates as selfish and greedy, downloading movies only to save or to make money themselves out of the sweat of others. But reality shows that Pirates are often willing to support their favorite artists. They just don’t see the need for an useless third party.
It is a little known fact that, after the trial of The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde co-created a web service called Flattr. The goal of Flattr? Making it easy to support the content you like on the web.
The way it works is quite simple: create a Flattr account, send some money on it and choose a monthly budget between 2€ and 250€. Then, click on Flattr buttons you cross during your journey on the web. At the end of the month, your monthly budget is divided by the number of clicks. That way, creators get some money and you keep your expense under tight control. I’ve called that “The Paying Web“.
If Flattr was not an overnight worldwide success, mainly due to a chicken-and-egg problem, it is still quite popular, mainly in the German podcast community. In fact, at the bottom of every post on this website, you can find a Flattr button. So why not create an account right now and offer your first Flattr to Peter Sunde, as a way to support him?
If Flattr is often seen as a simple anecdotal tool, it is part of something bigger, a complete shake-up of the way we perceive money or consumption. The ability to pay a Free Price, instead of being coerced into a fixed price, deeply modifies our perception of value. We understand more what and who we want to pay, we try to get rid of useless middlemen like we do any obsolete business model.
The established lobbies have been fighting this change since the start. No famous well-established artist from major labels ever signed up on Flattr or Patreon, despite money waiting for them! Flattr integration is even forbidden on any application on the App Store.
But, in the long term, that doesn’t matter. With Bitcoin and technologies like Ethereum, you can build completely decentralized platforms. In my short story “The Blogger from Tomorrow“, I explained how such a platform could basically make any formal organization, any company or any bank account useless! Not to mention how it could change our democracy.
The question is not whether such changes will happen or not. They already are, like the incredible way OpenWhisperSystems is handling its donations. You can’t stop the future. The real question is “how to handle the change gracefully”? And that’s why people like Peter Sunde are essential to our society. While The Pirate Bay exposed a flaw in the system, Flattr was an answer. Or at least the start of one. Problem. Solution. A true Pirate spirit.
Any honest man can understand how people like Peter Sunde are good for society. But we are not dealing with honesty. We are dealing with selfish minds corrupted by power. Minds who are ready to do anything to keep their power. Minds who will try to block every possible road to a better world.
Fortunately, we don’t have to wait for them. Because, where we are going, we don’t need roads.
Is there a need for Flattr now that we have Bitcoin, Litecoin etc?
As a venue of choice, perhaps? There will always be people who find bitcoin inconvenient and cumbersome. There will always be people swearing by it.
So setting up a row of buttons for donations/micropayments in the same way you’d add credit card type is not a bad standard to use.
Bitcoin is a currency, Flattr is a payment system using various currencies. They are both separate and different things. Flattr was accepting Bitcoin for a while, but they dropped it later, I’m not sure why.
Flattr could easily be converted into a system that runs on top of cryptocurrency architecture once all the whizbang new stuff with automatic crypto-contract enforcement becomes viable, but there’s still a need for it on top of whatever currency you’re using. In that future, people might not necessarily need to join Flattr to get paid through it,which would be nice.
As of right now, it really bugs me that we could not need something or other anymore because Bitcoin exists. Let’s keep in perspective just how easy it is to live your normal life in most parts of the world through Bitcoin: not very easy. The Bitcoin economy does not yet exist, even now, unless you can eat WordPress subscriptions. So, in the near future, yes, there’s always a need for things that operate with state-issued currency.
Some good answers. I realise that state money is still the most convenient option, and that the Bitcoin economy still has some distance to go. It’s just that Flattr strikes me as a bolt-on to the legacy banking industry, when there already exists a new, revolutionary means of sending small payments cheaply across the world. I predict it will become obsolete fairly soon, like the Iomega Zip Drive or Sony Minidisc.
Geez, that’s unllviebabee. Kudos and such.
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I have never understood the internet’s collective obsession with the letter “e.” We’re either adding it, as in the case of mail and books, or removing it entirely, as happened with flatter, grinder, tinder.
In any event, I’ve always liked the idea of Flattr, but never ended up using it myself.
My biggest critique of Flatter, and don’t get me wrong I think it’s a great system, is that it isn’t a network – it’s a centralised service. We need to build stuff and move away from the centralised client/server model, and do more client/client stuff.
But that’s probably years and years away for now…. 🙂
as a concept, it can very well work as a personal budget management application, sins all it is, is allocation and distribution, you count your targets, split your budget and send it away, there is no need to have more than one application running locally for such a system to work.
Yep, and then we can wonder why Flattr takes 10% on every transactions…
Last time I checked it was more like 5%. Are you sure it’s 10%?
If it’s true it may be because of lack of competition. It’s still a pretty new idea. It’s still A LOT better than the percentages the traditional “publishing industries” take.
I also think it’s more like 2-5% of each transaction. However much better than the 90-99% traditional publishers take.
[…] Flattr: Decentralized Payments Paving A Roadless Web – Falkvinge on Infopolicy Lionel Dricot beschreibt, wie er sich die Zukunft des Payment-Webs vorstellt. Im Grunde wie Flattr, aber dezentraler. Beispielhaft führt er die automatischen Spenden-Weiterleitungen an, wie Openwhispersystems (Textsecure) sie ausprobiert. […]
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I think the human race is destined to split into three social estates: The elite, the slaves, and us. “Us” being the people with the awareness, courage, and proactive will and energy to defy our enslavement by mega-corporations and their slimy tentacles. Of course the “slimy tentacles” are politicians, their Police State apparatus, and the tax collector. As the sheep breed amongst themselves, their progeny will become progressively dummer, and as we, the enlightened Promethii, breed amongst ourselves, we will become progressively wiser, nobler, and defiant in the face of the first estate.
Bitcoin, Flattr, torrenting, Pirate parties; these are all declarations of independence by the third estate, with surely more to come.
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These mops can be a bit pricey initially, but over time will add up
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If you have the tendency to horde things, you
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Apply it to a soft cloth and use it to wipe
down woodwork and furniture. It is an extremely versatile product
that is inexpensive and helps cut back on the use of expensive chemicals.
While you schedule your work, make sure that you
make allowance for cleaning different parts of the house on different
days.
You can choose your own timings and above all, you can choose how much work you want to take up.
When apartments get the unit “make ready” for the next
tenant, they usually employ a cleaning service to complete this.
Equipment should also be serviced on a weekly basis to make them more
efficient.
Apply it to a soft cloth and use it to wipe down woodwork and furniture.
There is no limit on what you earn – Once you have made a good base of clients, you will see that you can earn as much as you want.
You don’t want to be inhaling dust or preparing food on dirty, contaminated surfaces.
If you have the tendency to horde things, you will
have to learn let go. You can also keep containers
of various colors and sizes in different rooms. Of course, you don’t want to
be doing something every minute of the day,
so take some time to relax too.
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Of course, you don’t want to be doing something every minute of the day, so take some time to
relax too.
Another must-have piece of equipment is a cell phone to enable easy response to your customers.
Finally, I think parents and grandparents need to make it clear to
students that keeping the apartment clean is a personal health issue.
Most of the companies that offer apartment cleaning services are bonded and insured so that if any accident
were to happen they will take full responsibility for the replacement.
Apply it to a soft cloth and use it to wipe down woodwork and
furniture. When apartments get the unit “make ready” for the next
tenant, they usually employ a cleaning service to complete this.
Equipment should also be serviced on a weekly basis to make them
more efficient.
Before you start calling properties and getting estimates, you
may need to find out what you need cleaned. You can also keep containers of various colors
and sizes in different rooms. Of course, you don’t want to be doing something every
minute of the day, so take some time to relax too.
4) One Cleaning Supply at a Time – Instead of cleaning
one room top to bottom then moving onto the next on cleaning day, pull
out one cleaning supply and use it everywhere you need to in your home.
It is an extremely versatile product that is inexpensive and helps cut back on the
use of expensive chemicals. There are a couple of excellent
e-courses available that give a lot of really
valuable information on how to structure your business,where and how to get
clients, how to calculate prices, what equipment and supplies are
needed etc, and in my opinion are well worth the $30 or $40 they cost.
Before you start calling properties and getting estimates, you may need to find out what
you need cleaned. Finally, I think parents and grandparents need to make it clear to students that keeping the apartment clean is a personal health issue.
Of course, you don’t want to be doing something every minute of
the day, so take some time to relax too.
You can choose your own timings and above all, you can choose how
much work you want to take up. Will you need the cleaning service to do a thorough
cleaning for you. Is there anything special that the cleaning service needs to know
about.
Another must-have piece of equipment is a cell phone to enable easy response to your customers.
You can also keep containers of various colors and sizes
in different rooms. Is there anything special that the cleaning service needs to know about.
These are the right size for most cleaning jobs, very absorbent, lint free,
and best of all reusable. Finally, I think parents
and grandparents need to make it clear to students that keeping the apartment clean is a personal health issue.
These mops can be a bit pricey initially, but over time will add up to hundreds of
dollars in savings on floor products, especially if you have many types of flooring.
Actually, the problems that can be caused by traditional chemical products can be enormous.
It is an extremely versatile product that is inexpensive and helps cut back on the use
of expensive chemicals. Most of the companies that offer apartment cleaning services are bonded and insured so that if any accident were to happen they will
take full responsibility for the replacement.
These same apartment cleaning services Los Angeles use 100% biodegradable and
green products. Many mothers today work outside the home
in addition to raising children, and sometimes housework suffers as a
result. While you schedule your work, make sure that you make allowance for cleaning different parts of the
house on different days.
Remember that people trust real address workplaces more than online ventures because contact with the business is
more real. It is an extremely versatile product that is inexpensive and helps cut back on the use of expensive chemicals.
While you schedule your work, make sure that you make allowance for cleaning
different parts of the house on different days.
Before you start calling properties and getting estimates, you may
need to find out what you need cleaned. When apartments get the unit “make ready” for the next tenant, they usually employ a cleaning service to complete this.
These mops can be a bit pricey initially, but over time will add up to hundreds of dollars in savings on floor products,
especially if you have many types of flooring.
4) One Cleaning Supply at a Time – Instead of cleaning one room top
to bottom then moving onto the next on cleaning day, pull out
one cleaning supply and use it everywhere you need to in your home.
Now that you have a set of questions to work with, its time to
start contacting companies and get a few estimates.
There are a couple of excellent e-courses available that give a lot of really valuable information on how to structure your
business,where and how to get clients, how to calculate prices, what
equipment and supplies are needed etc, and in my opinion are well worth the
$30 or $40 they cost.
Apply it to a soft cloth and use it to wipe down woodwork and furniture.
You can also keep containers of various colors and sizes in different rooms.
Is there anything special that the cleaning service needs
to know about.
Actually, the problems that can be caused by traditional
chemical products can be enormous. Many mothers today work outside the
home in addition to raising children, and sometimes housework suffers as a result.
Equipment should also be serviced on a weekly basis to make them more
efficient.
These are the right size for most cleaning jobs, very absorbent, lint free, and best of all reusable.
There is no limit on what you earn – Once you have made a
good base of clients, you will see that you can earn as
much as you want. Equipment should also be serviced on a
weekly basis to make them more efficient.
Actually, the problems that can be caused by traditional chemical products
can be enormous. It is an extremely versatile product that is inexpensive and helps cut back on the use of expensive chemicals.
Most of the companies that offer apartment cleaning services are bonded and insured so that if any accident were to happen they will take full
responsibility for the replacement.
You can choose your own timings and above all, you can choose
how much work you want to take up. There is no limit on what you
earn – Once you have made a good base of clients, you will see that you can earn as much as you want.
Is there anything special that the cleaning service needs to know about.
Apply it to a soft cloth and use it to wipe
down woodwork and furniture. The places that are found
in this lovely area are there for the convenience of the
customers. You don’t want to be inhaling dust or preparing food on dirty, contaminated surfaces.
Actually, the problems that can be caused by traditional chemical products can be enormous.
Many mothers today work outside the home in addition to raising children, and sometimes housework suffers as a
result. There are a couple of excellent e-courses available that give a lot of
really valuable information on how to structure your business,where and how to get clients,
how to calculate prices, what equipment and supplies are needed etc, and in my opinion are well worth the $30 or
$40 they cost.
Apply it to a soft cloth and use it to wipe down woodwork and furniture.
Finally, I think parents and grandparents need to make it clear to students that keeping the
apartment clean is a personal health issue. Equipment should also be
serviced on a weekly basis to make them more efficient.
Apply it to a soft cloth and use it to wipe down woodwork and furniture.
There is no limit on what you earn – Once you have made a good base of clients,
you will see that you can earn as much as you want. You don’t want to be inhaling dust or preparing
food on dirty, contaminated surfaces.
These are the right size for most cleaning jobs, very absorbent, lint
free, and best of all reusable. This lets them
know how they have done and it helps them to improve their cleaning.
Of course, you don’t want to be doing something every minute of the day,
so take some time to relax too.
Actually, the problems that can be caused by traditional
chemical products can be enormous. This lets them know how they
have done and it helps them to improve their cleaning. To begin with, you would need an office,
some people who will clean the apartments and also some cleaning equipments.
Actually, the problems that can be caused by traditional chemical products can be enormous.
Many mothers today work outside the home in addition to raising children, and sometimes housework suffers as a result.
Regardless of whether you have a 3 bedroom apartment home
or a studio, your place will get dirty.
Another must-have piece of equipment is a cell phone to enable easy response to your customers.
Finally, I think parents and grandparents need to make it clear to students that keeping the apartment clean is a personal health issue.
Regardless of whether you have a 3 bedroom apartment home
or a studio, your place will get dirty.
4) One Cleaning Supply at a Time – Instead of cleaning one room top to bottom then moving onto the next on cleaning day, pull out one cleaning supply
and use it everywhere you need to in your home.
This lets them know how they have done and it helps them to
improve their cleaning. Regardless of whether you have a 3 bedroom
apartment home or a studio, your place will get dirty.
These are the right size for most cleaning jobs, very absorbent, lint free, and
best of all reusable. It is an extremely versatile product that is inexpensive
and helps cut back on the use of expensive chemicals.
These mops can be a bit pricey initially, but over time will
add up to hundreds of dollars in savings on floor products, especially if you have many
types of flooring.
If you have the tendency to horde things, you will have to learn let
go. Many mothers today work outside the home in addition to raising children,
and sometimes housework suffers as a result. Equipment should also be serviced on a
weekly basis to make them more efficient.
Apply it to a soft cloth and use it to wipe down woodwork and furniture.
Finally, I think parents and grandparents need to make it clear
to students that keeping the apartment clean is a personal health issue.
Most of the companies that offer apartment cleaning services are
bonded and insured so that if any accident were to happen they will take
full responsibility for the replacement.
4) One Cleaning Supply at a Time – Instead of cleaning one room top to
bottom then moving onto the next on cleaning day, pull out one cleaning supply and
use it everywhere you need to in your home. When apartments get
the unit “make ready” for the next tenant, they usually employ a cleaning
service to complete this. There are a couple of excellent e-courses available that give a lot of really valuable
information on how to structure your business,where and how to get
clients, how to calculate prices, what equipment and supplies are needed
etc, and in my opinion are well worth the $30 or $40 they cost.
Before you start calling properties and getting estimates,
you may need to find out what you need cleaned. Finally, I think parents and grandparents need to make it clear to students that keeping
the apartment clean is a personal health issue. While you schedule your work,
make sure that you make allowance for cleaning different parts of
the house on different days.
Another must-have piece of equipment is a cell
phone to enable easy response to your customers.
There is no limit on what you earn – Once you have made a good base of clients, you
will see that you can earn as much as you want. To begin with, you would need an office, some people who will
clean the apartments and also some cleaning equipments.
Another must-have piece of equipment is a cell phone
to enable easy response to your customers. Will
you need the cleaning service to do a thorough cleaning for
you. There are a couple of excellent e-courses available that give a lot of really valuable information on how
to structure your business,where and how to get clients, how to calculate prices,
what equipment and supplies are needed etc,
and in my opinion are well worth the $30 or $40 they cost.
You can choose your own timings and above all,
you can choose how much work you want to take up.
Finally, I think parents and grandparents need to make it clear to students that keeping
the apartment clean is a personal health issue. Most of the companies that
offer apartment cleaning services are bonded and insured
so that if any accident were to happen they will take
full responsibility for the replacement.
Remember that people trust real address workplaces more than online ventures
because contact with the business is more real. You can also keep containers of various colors and sizes in different rooms.
There are a couple of excellent e-courses available that give a
lot of really valuable information on how to structure your business,where and how to get clients, how to calculate
prices, what equipment and supplies are needed etc, and in my opinion are
well worth the $30 or $40 they cost.
You can choose your own timings and above all, you
can choose how much work you want to take up. It is
an extremely versatile product that is inexpensive and helps cut back on the use of expensive chemicals.
Is there anything special that the cleaning service needs to know about.
4) One Cleaning Supply at a Time – Instead of cleaning one
room top to bottom then moving onto the next on cleaning
day, pull out one cleaning supply and use it everywhere you need to in your home.
The places that are found in this lovely area are there for the convenience
of the customers. You don’t want to be inhaling dust or preparing food on dirty, contaminated surfaces.
These are the right size for most cleaning jobs, very absorbent,
lint free, and best of all reusable. When apartments get the
unit “make ready” for the next tenant, they usually employ a cleaning service
to complete this. Regardless of whether you have
a 3 bedroom apartment home or a studio, your place will get dirty.
You can choose your own timings and above all, you can choose how much work you want to
take up. Will you need the cleaning service to do
a thorough cleaning for you. To begin with, you
would need an office, some people who will clean the apartments and also some cleaning equipments.
You can choose your own timings and above all, you can choose how much work you want to
take up. This lets them know how they have done and it helps
them to improve their cleaning. These mops can be a bit pricey initially,
but over time will add up to hundreds of dollars
in savings on floor products, especially if you have many types of
flooring.
You can choose your own timings and above all, you can choose how much work you want to
take up. Finally, I think parents and grandparents need to
make it clear to students that keeping the apartment
clean is a personal health issue. Regardless of whether you have a 3 bedroom apartment home or a studio, your place will get dirty.
4) One Cleaning Supply at a Time – Instead of cleaning one room top to bottom then moving onto the next on cleaning
day, pull out one cleaning supply and use it everywhere you need to in your home.
Now that you have a set of questions to work with, its time to start contacting companies and get a few estimates.
To begin with, you would need an office, some people who will clean the
apartments and also some cleaning equipments.
Apply it to a soft cloth and use it to wipe down woodwork
and furniture. Finally, I think parents and grandparents need to
make it clear to students that keeping the apartment clean is a personal
health issue. These mops can be a bit pricey initially, but over time will add
up to hundreds of dollars in savings on floor
products, especially if you have many types of flooring.
Before you start calling properties and getting estimates, you may need to find out what you need cleaned.
The places that are found in this lovely area are there for the convenience of the customers.
Of course, you don’t want to be doing something every minute of the day, so take some time
to relax too.
Before you start calling properties and getting estimates, you may need to find out what you need cleaned.
There is no limit on what you earn – Once you have made a good base of clients,
you will see that you can earn as much as you want. Of course, you don’t want to be doing something every minute of the day, so take some time to relax too.
Actually, the problems that can be caused by traditional
chemical products can be enormous. You can also keep containers of various colors
and sizes in different rooms. These mops can be a bit pricey initially,
but over time will add up to hundreds of dollars in savings on floor products, especially if
you have many types of flooring.
You can choose your own timings and above all, you can choose how much
work you want to take up. You can also keep containers
of various colors and sizes in different rooms. While you schedule
your work, make sure that you make allowance for cleaning different parts of the house on different days.