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    Again With the Micro-Payments

    Monday, February 16th, 2009

    Rex Sorgatz posted a quick and dirty re-think of how micro-payments could be made to work in a present-day web-browsing scenario. Again, I question the premise of the problem micro-payment purports to solve.
    My fundamental objection to online payment is that most people won’t pay for something of unknown value. Speaking for myself (and a few [...]