Doesn't take socialism at all. A privately funded pirate economy is very possible. Where people pay for what they like ( and want more of ), and ignore the rest. The government or taxes need not be involved at all (except in abolishing this copyright madness) :p

Otherwise we can simply pay for what we want more of, and ignore the rest. If it ain't worth your money to get more of it, suit yourself if the creator can't/won't create any more for you. If it ain't worth the money for anyone to get more work done, maybe the "content creator" would have to keep doing it in her/his spare time. Doesn't require socialism at all ;) Works fine with intuitive view that it is actually the new work, and not work from the past that actually has an economical value. Since file copying and file sharing as a means of distribution is free, the only thing that might still have a value is the creation of new immateria - no longer the distribution of old immateria - which all current copyright legislation has totally missed.