> Over the past decade millions of consumers have become prosumers, producing and sharing music, videos, news, and knowledge at near-zero marginal cost and near

> Over the past decade millions of consumers have become prosumers, producing and sharing music, videos, news, and knowledge at near-zero marginal cost and nearly for free, shrinking revenues in the music, newspaper and book-publishing industries. No, these things aren't produced for "free". They're replicated for "free". Huge difference. The first cancer vaccine will "cost" trillions of spent research dollars. The second one? Probably a few cents, if that. Let's not, especially on this site, forget about how important investors are.