If these rich 20th century industries can't adapt and end up bankrupt, so be it. How should the many millions of people around the world who contribute to crea

If these rich 20th century industries can't adapt and end up bankrupt, so be it. How should the many millions of people around the world who contribute to creative content enjoyed by many millions more every day then put food on their tables, in your version of the future? Arguments about the ease of copying information in the Internet age are easy to make, but that's just the marginal cost of distribution. These arguments almost invariably ignore the issue of creating that content in the first place, and that the main economic role of copyright is to amortise that cost over many people who ultimately benefit from the work rather than just relying on some extremely wealthy patron or the equivalent to fund it philanthropically. So far, other business models that have been tried have rarely come even close to supporting the same quantity and quality of creative work that our current copyright-based regime does. Until someone proposing to revoke copyright and allow everything to be copied freely comes up with a viable alternative model, most people are going to continue not to take them seriously.