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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
The "alternatives" you are speaking so vaguely of are content producers who stop creating content, because they cannot make a living at it because of theft. The result is: No more professional authors, musicians, theoreticians, designers, engineers, artists, inventors, and actors.
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Wrong!
Do you any idea of the number of people who produce artistic work without earning any kind of livelihood from it? it's huge, so that point just isn't true.
That said, I never meant that people shouldn't be able to earn a living from their work. What I'm saying is that the previous model where reading one novel/listening to one song meant you paid for your copy of it (brushing aside exchange between people) isn't valid anymore.
I'm don't know what form this kind of thing will be in the future, but I'll bet you the farm that it won't be everybody - or even the majority - dutifully going to sanctioned websites and pay for their copy of whatever.
I do know there already are people making good money out of their work although they made it available for free (in the writters' realm, Cory Doctorow comes to mind).