One of the systems I work on is a music download site (Tunetribe.com)

This has brought into sharp relief the question of how you can make money as a content creator on the internet.

Everything is free! Websites, software products, information, music etc...

How will the "content" economy shake down in the light of this.

Unless the producers get paid, they won't have much time to create - they'll be too busy flipping burgers.

It seems that every time the barriers are erected (DRMing music, password-protecting software and e-books) someone rips them down - hacking the protection, sharing files on P2P networks.

I guess this always happened (think of photocopying and cassette tapes) - but it just seemed to happen on a smaller scale and more slowly.