MICROPAYMENTS

Daniel Davies has an interesting post on why micropayments, which are often posited as a panacea to get around problems with charging for Internet-based content, are a lot more complicated than it would seem. The short version is that going from “free” to “nearly free” imposes a surprising number of new transaction costs on a system. He even gets in a Superman 3 reference, which is always good.

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