OK, this is mostly aimed at those who (like me) think it should be legal to share anything on P2P services. Suppose, hypothetically, that this actually happened, and copyright no longer restricted the actions of private individuals, just people trying to make a profit. And suppose in the wake of this, P2P services started working wonderfully well, and became embedded in our culture as the standard way of checking things out. But maybe in this world, small creative operations would find it difficult to persuade people to buy an official version of their product, and many would go out of business and stop creating. Would this:
a) Never happen; copyright is only actually of advantage to big business?
b) Be an acceptable price to pay for freedom and the associated benefits, there are plenty of other ways of creating
things?
c) Need to be rectified?
And most interestingly, if the answer is (c), what sort of system would you want to be brought in to deal with this problem now created?