[rollinDyno]

I worry that if this system becames permanent, one in which it is practically impossible to stop piracy, followed by the loss of traditional incentives we might find ourselves in a place where no motivated investor will break even when producing quality and innocuous content.

[jdnenej]

Most of the stuff on scihub was funded by tax dollars

[a1369209993]

"Motivated investors" don't produce quality content anyway; they produce mass-market swill like Twilight or Game of Thrones.

[ausbah]

Most people use sites like these to pirate the "swill" you despite so much.

[ColanR]

In that case, we will just pass around the same old stuff until we get bored enough that we'll actually pay for new stuff.

[rollinDyno]

Some people might decide to pay but the technology will be there to distribute it for free. At this point it would be sort of like a public good with the free rider problem.