Well think about it this way. Status Quo right now, you get only a very small percentage of the actual profits that your work makes -- the rest goes to your di

Well think about it this way. Status Quo right now, you get only a very small percentage of the actual profits that your work makes -- the rest goes to your distributors. The internet allows you to significantly cut the costs of distribution and thus increase the percentage profits to yourself. We see in the new business model that there are still plenty of ways to make money even if copyright doesn't exist. Bloggers make money from advertising, Chinese pop singers (where piracy > 90%) make money from concerts and endorsement deals. It's been possible for a long time to make prints and posters of famous artwork for cheap, yet famous original artworks still sell for millions of dollars.