People already don't do most of that stuff, what changes when there's no IP?

The free market is bullshit, it's constantly manipulated by people looking to make money. The invisible hand is dead and long gone.

The one with more money will most likely win. They have better marketing, lawers, and ereryting else to outcompete every upcoming buissnes. The moment the small competetor has a real chnce they wave with enough money to make you quit. And why wouldn't you? You work for moneyafter all. How can you determine the actuall demand if you don't have the numbers with no way to get them?

There is no free market and there has never been one.

Most people are exploited and can't afford to make purchasing decisions on sentiment. And guess what? Your "free market" causes that quite directly. And blaming the actions of sociopathic CEOs on the consumers (who can't actually afford a choice) will never change anything.

So you're just going to ignore reality in favor of what you think "should" be happening.

If someone like you was in charge, we'd swiftly find ourselves living in company towns and working 18 hour days on assembly lines, only to be swiftly culled the instant some form of automation made us redundant.

You say you're aware that there will always be people to take advantage of a situation where there is absolutely no protections for the consumer, but you are woefully ignorant of the scale to which advantage would be taken.

So your answer will result in creators having to compete with people who dont create, but market better. This will discourage creators and the result will be less non corporate content will be created for us, everything will be bland crap made for mass consumption.

Most people will have to learn the hard way when their own ideas are sold cheaper elsewhere until they understand that it is better to support the original and the actual creator

Or they won't learn because the number of people who create the type of media that a corporation would want to steal is ultimately very few and those people can merely be talked over. There is absolutely no reason to believe that information is both available and timely.

The current system we have is harmful to small creators. I release a lot of music under a pay-whatever model (almost all of it actually), but I would hate to be forced to do that. Five or ten years is reasonable, and there should be no such thing as "criminal" copyright infringement -- it should be a tort only. I think that's a fairly reasonable, even libertarian, compromise that doesn't head too far into idealism. I really need to be paid for my work, y'see. Or paid for no reason, that's fine too.