> How would you feel if someone took your output without permission, whether it's designs or code or something else unique and hard to make? I believe that bei

> How would you feel if someone took your output without permission, whether it's designs or code or something else unique and hard to make? I believe that being able to profit strictly from control of intellectual property is on the decline and will ultimately disappear. "Payment for access" to IP will be outcompeted by easy and ubiquitous technology for IP distribution (and thus infringement). I believe we'll move back to a world of primarily "payment for genesis". You want to make money as an author? Then find a way to say "hey world, I'll write a great book about XYZ if I get PQR money." In the same way software developers say "hey, you want this piece of software? I'll write XYZ software if I'm paid PQR money." It's a brutally huge change to the historical way publishing's done and the way artists earn a living. But it's already happening and I believe it'll only accelerate. The future is "payment for genesis" not "payment for control".