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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3198806" data-attributes="member: 2067">If you can afford to give it to me for free before, why do you need to charge me for it now?It's the drug-dealer tactic. "First taste is free, and then you're hooked and you'll PAY me for it!"It's shady as heck.If they already charged $1 for it and they raised the price to $1.25, it wouldn't be as big of a deal. But going from free to charging is different...you feel *ripped off* paying for the same stuff you used to not have to pay for.I mean, it's not like these articles are an exhaustible rescource that has become rare. It's something that can be produced, and, presumably, the costs of production are about the same as they were when we got it for free.It seems that they're trying to avoid this by adding plenty of content, but I still feel ripped off in the free stuff. They could give me *just* the new stuff for $5/mo, and it would probably be worth it. I don't need them to take away the free stuff, too.</blockquote>