The Double-Dip Mentality

[kandrathe]

Sounds good to me.

Technology wont stop progressing. Hardware will still drive progress. We would probably end up with more business PCs that work like an X-Box or playstation.

And the PC market wouldnt disappear as  open source would still exist.

Over all the world work much like it does today. Music and media would be the only industries hurt. A little less mass produced media would be good for humanity I suspect.
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Why stop with destroying the music, software, and film industries? What about drug formula patents? The formula for Coca-cola? Engineering designs? There is open source music, writing, film, and arts of every flavor if you want free stuff, but they are there aspiring to be found and made successful. And sometimes while sifting through the trash you find a pearl, or by popular acclaim a pearl emerges.

Are you a neo-ludite? There were many people who chaffed at the advent of machines during the transition from agrarian to industrial economy. The recognition and protection of intellectual property makes knowledge, education and invention valuable. It makes the transition from an industrial to intellectual economy possible.

In 1981, my software designer compatriots and I had "Intellectual Sweatshop Worker" t-shirts made up embracing the new economy with a bit of an edge to our masters/employers. We knew we were valuable because we could build things in the virtual world of computers that others could not. Not many people understood in 1981 what knowledge workers would do to transform the world.