Eight Uncopyable Values

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Kevin Kelly has written extensively on find new values to create value in the age of digital media reproduction. In a recent essay on his blog The Technium, he explores the value of things that can't be digitally reproduced, and therefore maintain their value in a file-sharing, free music environment.

When copies are super abundant, they become worthless. When copies are super abundant, stuff which can't be copied becomes scarce and valuable.

These eight things are better than free. Eight uncopyable values:
  1. Immediacy
  2. Personalization
  3. Interpretation
  4. Authenticity
  5. Accessibility
  6. Embodiment
  7. Patronage
  8. Findability
Read the full essay Better Than Free.

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