[jonhendry]

"Paying for CP (and thereby directly contributing, economically, to its production)?"

You can contribute to its production without paying money. It's like people cracking copy-protected software for status, rather than for money. They get 'paid' in other things they value.

[abalashov]

Can you illuminate in greater detail the mechanism by which this might take place with CP? How does one contribute to the production of CP without paying for it?

(Obviously, by "paying" I don't mean strictly "paying with fiat currency". I mean paying in any tender, or barter arrangement.)