The logic of the technology points to a time when everything could in fact be free, and the price mechanism and so forth is only kept in play by increasingly weird artificial methods.

And if everything is free, you don't need money, so if you write a song and other people sing it and listen to it, that's great. What more do you want? Well maybe you want people to say this great song was written by so and so, but that's all.

Murray Bookchin once wrote a book called Post-Scarcity Anarchism, and it's on my shelves somewhere. I'll have to get around to reading it again.