[catsittingstill]

I think if we do wind up with people expecting everything for free, we'll wind up with the only art, music, writing available being fan art. It will be done by people who love it so much they do it for free, but have to spend most of their time on a job that pays the bills, and thus don't have much practice, or much incentive (beyond the love of the art) to improve.

If you like fan-fic, this will be heaven, because fan-fic will be all there is. If you prefer professional writing (or art, or music) filtered by gatekeepers who to some degree help keep the quality higher, not so much.

"Concerts" will be done by people who practice and study as much as possible given that they also work full time at something else, and always expected to have to do that. The difference between the Philharmonic and the local Open Mic night. Now as an amateur musician singer-songwriter myself, I love the idea of people getting back to enjoying music that regular mortals can hope to produce instead of assuming that one-in-a-million musicians are normal and everyone who can't make that level is lame. But I wonder if everyone feels the same.

On the other hand I'm not sure we are stuck with this scenario. Some writers and artists I know of are going to a crowdfunding model, where they produce art not so much for one patron (though sometimes one partron funds a particular work) but for groups of people who club together to pay for something. It's a bit early to say this is the wave of the future, but it does strike me as one alternative both to the present system, and to "art as slushpile."