Pyramid, etc -- was: Re: [HOE] GURPS DEADLANDS DELAYED!

[Matt Crawford <matt@severian.chi.il.us>]

>  > I think that the $15 a year is well worth it for Pyramid. In fact, I
>  > often give subscriptions to it for all my gaming buddies for christmas.
> 
> Ah - but that flies in the face of a personal belief of mine - that
> the web and the internet was built on the free exchange of
> information.  I won't pay to gain access to somebody's website.  :-/

You triggered one of my buttons.

In many ways, I hate commercialization of the internet as much as the
next guy.  I was on the net before there was such a thing as ".com"
(it was all so-and-so.arpa, and even the ".arpa" was new-fangled).
But let me tell you that before the network backbone went commercial,
performace SUCKED BIG RED ROCKS.  Nobody ever tried to transfer a
file above 50kB in the daytime, and even that was hit-or-miss.  (And
almost the entire internet was within 4 timezones, so "daytime" had a
well-defined meaning.)

So an honest buck for an honest digital product is fine by me.  And
I dare you to draw a sensible line between sunscribing to an online
magazine and paying for downloadable files.