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An excellent article about how digital technology allowed whole industries to evolve around providing their content and services for zero cost to the user. The sidebar features are also quite potentially useful.

I would also like to point out to a critique as well as an excellent comment to one of the posts the critique post linked which was aptly titled: "Incredible stupidity relating to online free".

I recommend reading all of the above. I am singling out that comment because it seems like an important distinction to make between free and no-cost. It quite reminds of the distinction we make between "free as in freedom" software and "zero cost" software.