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When ex-The Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde  decided it was time to head for pastures new,  “my current focus is on my new micro payment system Flattr and also a lot of work for a greener environment and better rights for people, not companies in our society,” he said on Copy me happy.

Now, meet Flattr.

“We aim to revolutionize how people pay and get payed [sic] for content on the internet”, he says, going on, “Come, join and show the world that good content is worth some coins out of your pocket.”

What’s it all about”

“Flattr is a new micropayment system that is still in early beta stage”, posts Mouser on Donation Coder, continuing >>>

I have no idea if it will survive — i think that will be determined by many factors that have nothing to do with the quality of the idea or implementation, and more to do with marketing and business.

But this is the first implementation of an idea i wrote about a couple of years ago on DC as an idea for paying for unlimited music downloads (and i’m sure others have as well).

The idea is that users pay some flat fee into their central account, and then whenever they want to support a site or some content producer on the web, they simply click a button on that web page (or download a song, etc.).

Then at the end of the month, your flat monthly fee is divided up among all of the places you chose to support that month.

So if you pay $10 a month into your account, and clicked to support 10 people that month, each would get $1.  If you only supported 2 people, they would each get $5.

To me this is EXACTLY the right model for a donation-based voluntary support system.  It lets people decide how much they can afford to give, and makes it super easy (even fun) for them to divide up their gifts.

“I really hope something like this takes off”, Mousee says, adding:

“[...] if not Flattr then someone else.  It breaks my heart that the real companies that could make this work because of their reach in the market (like Google) wouldn’t go near it with a 10 foot pole since it would have such a negative impact on their business model..  And i worry that the ad companies like google are going to be actively trying to prevent something like this from taking hold.”

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head for pastures new – Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde walks the plank, August 3, 2009
Donation Coder – Flattr: New Micropayment System – Gets the Model Right, February 10, 2010

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