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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9533440" data-attributes="member: 18">Novels would 100% exist, I find it very odd that you suggest otherwise. People have been writing novels and making little to no money off them for absolutely centuries. In fact I would suggest the vast majority of novels - particularly good ones! - are written with surprisingly little expectation of actual monetary recompense. Again, this has been true for centuries.Giant budget movie blockbusters wouldn't exist, sure, but smaller films absolutely would, and I'm not sure giant blockbusters dying would be in any way, shape, or form a bad thing for art or humanity.Also the whole "everyone would pirate it" thing has long been proven not to be true. Games release without DRM and make plenty of money, even though people could go pirate them. People are willing to pay for art they like.What we'd actually see, I'd suggest, is something more like Patreon/patron systems, where art is created by people supported by patrons large and small.</blockquote>