Okay, it's an undeniable fact that you can get the crack for any non-free software you can think of (well maybe not any, but the others usually don't matter) and download almost any song or movie or the like you want, for free, in these (relatively) new beginnings of the internet. This creates a huge problem in terms of money and copyright and crap for the companies and creators behind these things, so here I pose the question:
What does everyone think of the future of software and media on the internet?
My theory is that one of four things will happen:
1) A huge authority will crack down on illegal downloads and half the internet using population gets fined/jailed.
2) In my utopian ideal, absolutely everything will become free.
Freewares will become so competitive that Commercial products will succumb to their influence, and we will become one big sharing happy family and the world will be grand.
3) Buying things online will become so easy it's like going into a shop anyways, so fewer people will download illegally. Although this will not solve the problem and another solution will replace this one.
4) Some amazing genius like Blizzard will develop an unbreakable code which only he knows how to break and which people would start blackmailing him to get the crack for.
Debate away.