[Asbostos]

I personally make money selling software that I wrote expecting to be able to sell it in the future. Without copyright, I wouldn't have done it in the first place. How do you see this sort of activity in a world without copyright?

[zanny]

This is always the first comment, and its always the easiest. You do not treat your information as a scarce resource when it is not. You treat your scarce resources as scarce. Seek payment to develop, not for the fruits of development, at least not to be treated as a falsified scarce commodity. The time and mental energy to create is the limited resource, not the creation itself.

[Asbostos]

Sure, but who will pay for that time and energy? I guess no-one, which means not producing the product in the first place.