> nearly everybody expects content to be free to the end user on the internet.
The concept of paying for content that isn't trade-related/educational is mostly bizarre. I hate a large amount of the content I consume on the internet, and wish I could somehow take money away from the people who published it. You can understand people paying for entertainment, but only because modern entertainment is aimed at that sort of consumption. It's largely completely empty; having nothing to say about anything other than sort of expansions of cliched aphorisms, and/or childish and simplistic anti-crime, pro-patriotic, anti-cruelty messages."Real" art has an agenda. Art built for mass consumption carefully avoids any dangerous agenda because it doesn't to alienate any potential audience unless absolutely necessary.
While I have to admit that I pay for investigations because I'm curious about their outcome (which is why I'd pay an investigative journalist or a detective), other than that I support for the media that I want other people to read.
The baseline assumption is strange, where I pay people to communicate something to me that they presumably find important to communicate. I'd rather pay people to shut up. Content blocking is literally about shutting people up.
The concept of paying for content that isn't trade-related/educational is mostly bizarre. I hate a large amount of the content I consume on the internet, and wish I could somehow take money away from the people who published it. You can understand people paying for entertainment, but only because modern entertainment is aimed at that sort of consumption. It's largely completely empty; having nothing to say about anything other than sort of expansions of cliched aphorisms, and/or childish and simplistic anti-crime, pro-patriotic, anti-cruelty messages."Real" art has an agenda. Art built for mass consumption carefully avoids any dangerous agenda because it doesn't to alienate any potential audience unless absolutely necessary.
While I have to admit that I pay for investigations because I'm curious about their outcome (which is why I'd pay an investigative journalist or a detective), other than that I support for the media that I want other people to read.
The baseline assumption is strange, where I pay people to communicate something to me that they presumably find important to communicate. I'd rather pay people to shut up. Content blocking is literally about shutting people up.