It's funny how everyone abandoned the whole "information wants to be free" thing as soon as the AI companies actually indexed the world's information and made it easily accessible.

I think copyright and patents made sense, make sense, and will continue to make sense, but I also think that as the pace of development accelerates the durations for both need to reduce. The products of intellectual work are valuable and it should be worth investing lots of time and effort into producing it - they just shouldn't be worth that much.