a) Plenty of free content? I assume you won't ever be watching another feature film or television show. Free concerts do exist, but they are pretty few and far

a) Plenty of free content? I assume you won't ever be watching another feature film or television show. Free concerts do exist, but they are pretty few and far between (and highly financed via ads and commercial sponsors -- the stagehands and techs don't work for free). b) Billboard analogy is invalid because you cannot "not see" a billboard. Of course you don't have to act upon it, and can try to ignore it, but the billboard did make an impression in your brain, like it or not. With ad-blocking, it never has the opportunity to make the impression. >> lots of art that is created by people who like giving it away for free c) doubt it, people sometimes HAVE to give their work away for free -- to get attention, publicity, an audience -- but they would almost always prefer to be paid.