[tszyn]

You seem to assume that there are only 2 kinds of software: "fun experiments" and made-to-order business software. What about mass-market software that's not so fun to write? Who's going to pay for the development effort if everyone can just download it from a torrent site? Or do you think that all mass-market software is inherently fun to write, be it an RDBMS, graphics editor, Web browser, backup software, etc.?

[ForHackernews]

Maybe mass-market software will no longer be a profitable category of software in the future. I don't see that it would be such a tragedy to have to use good-enough commodity word processors or image editors.