i respect your opinion. i agree it is tough to make a business for writer and artist these days. same goes for game programmers, wow talk about a march to the pricing bottom.

but why fight what the market wants with paywalls?

for me it's the "nickel and dime" thing, not just simply paying for quality product. i can't stand it. i want to pay for everything once, in an indirect way, that is almost unnoticeable to me.

have you ever driven in switzerland and italy? you enter switzerland and you pay 40 euros to use their roads and you sort of hate switzerland for it. then you enter italy and you don't pay anything and then all of the sudden you start hitting pay gates every so often and you end up paying double what you did in switzerland.

i fear for where these paywalls will take the internet in the future...i want something more like driving in switzerland than in italy