I think there's some digital equivalent of the old "pay 25 cents for a newspaper" model buried in the discussion somewhere.

If I had a quick, anonymous way to pay a site 5 cents to read an article, or a dollar to read all the articles I want for some time period, or something to that effect, I'd happily pay that from time to time. What I don't want is a million subscriptions I have to pay 3 or 4 dollars a month for, when I don't read any individual site often enough for that to make sense.

And I definitely don't want them to model the system after fucking video game transactions. The fact that the author mentions the buying it in game currency as something to base this on blew my mind.

We could make a loot box for news! Maybe you get today's WSJ, maybe you get a National Enquirer.