I suppose it depends when those micropayments had become a thing. I don't think, for example, that the various "pay a sliver of money when you hit a page" services out there have any chance, nor would they have had a chance five years ago. Content on the internet is Free, and when it's not Free, it's time to get boiling and resentful.

Ten years ago, fifteen? Maybe. At this point I feel like the entitlement of free ridership has won pretty hard.