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you know what? It's a different culture we're seeing rising. It's a culture where everyone feel they are entitled to their share of happiness and content-free consuming -- aside from authors, of course. People already pay for their power, internet access, cable TV and phone bills and just want to be amused with cheap free content. Perhaps including a "content" tax into this mix would make digital consumption more bearable to authors?
I wonder how something akin to radio never came into being for other media. I mean, you can literally listen to "free" music in its entirety, but you can't do so with books, or games -- for movies there's TV, but even then it's interspeced with other content. Why is it so? You would be able to turn on your multimedia "radio" and either listen to music, watch movies, read comics and books, play games... all for the duration of the program, lest you purchase it right there.
Many possibilities, the only one which doesn't work is trying to impose artificial limitations to technology made with the precise goal of making it possible to have cheap copying and distribution literally for free. That's not progress.
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