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Re:402: Payment Required by Already__Taken on Monday October 05, 2015 @12:17PM (#10332817)
You're describing things that were inconvenient and made convenient with a nominal transaction cost.

You couldn't just buy one track before. Now you can for $.99. You couldn't send a text message at all before.

Try $.10 per email and see what traction that gets.

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Re:402: Payment Required by CPLX on Monday October 05, 2015 @12:40PM (#10332985)
Sure and I used to watch SNL for free over the air, now I pay $8 a month for Hulu. Things change.

The market, like all markets, is defined by people's willingness to pay and their next best alternative. Make the transaction cheap and nearly frictionless and it might be the choice with the highest utility.

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Re:402: Payment Required by MaulingMonkey on Monday October 05, 2015 @11:36PM (#10336624)
> You're describing things that were inconvenient

So... pretty much every web paywall I've ever encountered. Where's my amazon 1-click for news website paywalls? Several of which I encounter using this very site?

I don't want to create an account, subscribe, save my details, unsubscribe from services I no longer use, etc. for each individual website.

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