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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Bull. Garbage. Tripe. Most of the great literature ever written has been written before modern copyright laws, by people who simply can't not write. So we lose all of our future Stephen Kings and John Grishams and Dan Browns and Mary Higgins Clarks. No big loss there. I'd take one Emily Dickinson-- who saw almost no recognition in her lifetime-- over the whole lot of them. The end of commercial, mass-production pulp writers? Bring it on.
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No, a lot of the great literature and most other arts was produced by people who were kept by royalty as pets and given projects to work on. And, of course, there were writers who were dirt poor and still wrote. Were they happy to be so poor? Didn't they deserve better? What I don't see is why you think it is so wrong to reward writers for their work. So you take pleasure from a great book but you don't think the author deserves to eat???
Yes, commercialism is a somewhat unfortunate by-product. But the Dan Browns are exactly the only ones that would survive in your world. They would still get filthy rich by doing paid appearances, selling movie and video game rights, etc.