We've hit the peak of 'free' on the Internet. It's time to pay up.

Everyone wants everything on the internet for free. Just ask the New York Times. Over the years, the Times website has gone from free, to paid, back to free, and, finally, back to paid. Well, mostly paid. For now, anyway By practice and by ethos, the Internet has generally been a place where free content thrived and paid — news, music — struggled. The information superhighway had few toll booths. It was, in fact, less like a highway and more like a hippie commune where people shared everythi...