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And if it takes you 100M to design the soy-bean-printing-machine, you will get the necessary investment exactly how?

I don't like MPAA either, I think they go over the top. But you are no better than MPAA by failing to take a more nuanced point of view. If there is no copyright whatsoever, I can guarantee you that no one will make 100M hollywood movies. And yes, they do take 100M to make - they hire armies of artists and programmers for that.

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You don't need 100M to make a good movie. You need 100M to make a movie that is trying to hide its own inadequacies by spending an insane amount of money on special effects and well-known actors.

That is not to say that there aren't movies that are worth spending 100M to make - but the market-driven talentless big budget movies that are coming out of Hollywood? We could well do without them.

That being said, most movies that have a 100M budget earn back their money in theatres, so I'm not convinced that with a downsized copyright system (no copyright whatsoever sounds silly, considering the term covers quite a few different bases, many of which are not impeded on by person-to-person sharing) they would run into big problems.

It's not sharing, it's theft, whats the argument for "downsizing copyright"

Nice try.

Don't forget the ads army to spam you day and night about the movie.

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