> Lots of previously successful, legitimate businesses are finding their income slashed.
This is true, but I posit that those businesses can easily move to a pay model. If they can't, they aren't legitimate businesses.
One last comment: Not all businesses are conducive to a pay per use or pay per user model. For some things, that simply does not work. This is exactly why advertising has been used for decades by content providers, even before there was an Internet.
> One last comment: Not all businesses are conducive to a pay per use or pay per user model. For some things, that simply does not work. This is exactly why advertising has been used for decades by content providers, even before there was an Internet.
I'm not sure why anyone would care that these businesses don't work. Why are we expected to prop up businesses that don't work?
This is true, but I posit that those businesses can easily move to a pay model. If they can't, they aren't legitimate businesses.
One last comment: Not all businesses are conducive to a pay per use or pay per user model. For some things, that simply does not work. This is exactly why advertising has been used for decades by content providers, even before there was an Internet.