Should You Pay to Read This? - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com
Would you be better off paying for online newspapers like this one? Should you feel guilty about downloading free music? Is the Web’s “information-wants-to-free” culture hurting writers, musicians and the rest of the “digital peasants,” as Jaron Lanier calls us, now providing unpaid content to be exploited by the “lords of the clouds” like Google?
If it wasn't free, I wouldn't be reading it. Would I lose anything if it wasn't free? Nope.
Would it be different for others? I'm sure it would be.