New Unified Microdonation System To Support Voluntary Payment Revenue Model For Information Products

Buskpay, a new public domain system for organizing information about payment methods and intended donations, opens the door to innovative microdonation software and a free market of interchangeable microdonation delivery services. This, in turn, will reduce the importance of intellectual property by making a voluntary payment revenue model feasible.

Buskpay is a meta-donation system. Instead of providing a hyperlink to an account in one payment system, such as PayPal, the recipient links a file with a list of payment options in a standard format. This lets the donor do things to get around the transaction costs, such as aggregating microdonations through a delivery proxy. Because it's open and can contain information for any payment method, people can invest effort in building software and services around it without worrying about it going obsolete or tying themselves to one delivery service.

The motivation behind the Buskpay system is to facilitate a donation-based revenue model for information products, such as computer software, web pages, and recorded music. This "mass market busking" model of voluntary payment for freely redistributable information products may eventually prove a superior replacement to the intellectual property model of rewarding innovators.

To speed Buskpay's adoption, all specifications and proof of concept software have been placed in the public domain. This includes a sample payment aggregation system, donor software for multiple operating systems, and demonstrations of alternative payment delivery options, such as automated delivery and probabilistic delivery.

More information on the Buskpay system can be found at the project homepage (http://buskpay.com/), where further development is encouraged by an offer of free web space to related projects, and a proof of concept microdonation delivery service (symbolized by an organ-grinder's monkey) is offered.