It's a fact of human nature that people will grab and hoard when they perceive scarcity or potential shortages. This is physically different on the net because there's never a shortage of actual material; bits don't come from mines or wells. But the result is the same. Seems like an opportunity for somebody to play the role of "antique store" or "surplus store". Such a store would make a contract with each popular creator or source website, paying the source an agreed-on price for one copy of every available product, on condition that the surplus dealer will be able to sell the products only AFTER the original dealer stops carrying it. This would have two good results: products would remain available, and (if the surplus stores become well-known and trusted) customers would then feel confident that products would be available later, and therefore would be less inclined to grab and hoard.

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