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Its just the fact that people are used to free content, so the idea of paying for it is foreign.

If groceries used to be free, but suddenly cost money, people would riot.



That's absurd. People need groceries. If the National Enquirer went to a paid subscription model or disappeared entirely nobody would riot.


> That's absurd. People need groceries.

Thus: if groceries used to be free, but suddenly cost money, people would riot.

Arguably: why would people riot about not-free Youtube?


See also this Planet Money episode about formerly-free doughnuts. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/13/156737801/the-...




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