I'm not quite so optimistic, or at least my optimism is more measured at least in terms of the games market. Most kickstarter projects I see (games at least) a

I'm not quite so optimistic, or at least my optimism is more measured at least in terms of the games market. Most kickstarter projects I see (games at least) are not proposing "If this gets funded the game will be free" they are proposing "If this gets funded the game will be $20, but you can get it for $15 if you fund us". So they are still relying on copyright to some extent. Of course there are some games that appear to be sustainable as donationware (dwarf fortress for example) but I would be amazed if we saw a COD/Skyrim scale game on a "pay what you want model" simply because the up front development costs are so high that it would be too large a risk. I suspect in the AAA areas you will see a move towards support for closed platforms where piracy is more easily controlled and IAP type models. So probably two divergent markets , with starving artist auteurs in one corner and AAA publicly traded behemoths in another.