Content wants to be paid for

Content wants to be free like communism works, like sex is just for fun, like a few days of snow disprove global warming. That the web's existence makes all content free is a Brooklyn Bridge most of us have bought, but it just ain't true, as Erin Kissane makes clear in Content is Expensive at Incisive.nu.

Go there, read it, and understand why (just like newspaper reporting and books), web content costs money and must be paid for or subsidized. Either that or it must serve some ...