It sounds absurd, but Sri Lankan techies are experimenting with minting Wal Katha as NFTs. This guarantees scarcity and ownership, theoretically solving the piracy issue. Whether a Gamarala wants to buy an NFT of a jungle story remains to be seen.
The whispering jungle has moved to the cloud. The Wal Katha are now just a search away. What you do with them defines the future of Sinhala literature. Sinhala Wal Katha Scribd
Historically, these were shared as xeroxed pamphlets, whispered narrations, or PDFs passed via Bluetooth (a popular method in Sri Lanka during the early 2000s). Today, the demand has moved online. It sounds absurd, but Sri Lankan techies are
Scribd has a DMCA policy. However, because the content is in Sinhala, English-speaking moderators rarely catch the violations unless the original author files a formal complaint. For every author that sends a takedown notice, ten new uploads appear. The whispering jungle has moved to the cloud