[kiba]

Then there are the copy-free positions that some people espouses, but ignored because people think such an idea is nuts.

A major libertarian think tank did think it's an alright idea, going as far as giving away free PDF and put their entire content empire under the Creative Common Attribution. Not exactly public domain, but they don't want people to claims copyright over it and prevent the institution from being able to publish it. I heard that they are even asking for bit torrent expert and seeders. In the end, they still managed to sell a healthy amount of books.

The copyfree position is a revolution that is taking place within libertarianism. IP was a controversy, but gradually, the anti-IP position has won out. To that extent, business models are changed, too.

It could be a precursor of things to come in mainstream society.

[dantheman]

Think tank link? I know that mises.org has been doing amazing stuff with providing free content. They purchase the rights to a book so they can distribute it for free, often causing the books sales to increase significantly.