I was flaming a column in the April issue that particularly offended me. The editor called the next day, to say he thought it was funny and well-spoken, and that he wanted to pay me twenty cents a word to run it as a column in the June issue. And so he did. That's fifty bucks an hour. As we stood in the lineup, I noticed the pies in their display.
Cooking is a prime example.
So are most kinds of art. And so is software. Free software is thriving. Over half of the most revered names in any field seem to have lived and died in poverty, obviously labouring at painting or music for the love of it. Ruination of intellectual property enforcement would change the development of art and entertainment and software dramatically - maybe even significantly for the worse.