This final note. The Internet has turned the phrase “you get what you pay for” on its head. But maybe that’s changing.
A new survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds two-thirds of adult web users in the U.S. have paid for access to video, news or software tools such as word processing and spreadsheets. About a third surveyed say they’ve paid for digital music. The Pew researchers say it suggests paying for online content is not a completely foreign idea.
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