This is painfully true and so many excellent sources suffer because of it. By and large, people _will not_ pay if they don't have to and don't have to show the

This is painfully true and so many excellent sources suffer because of it. By and large, people _will not_ pay if they don't have to and don't have to show their face. I could write about this ad nauseam, even the most ostensibly wealthy and honest communities, you still get something silly like 95% free 5% paying. It's not even necessarily malicious, it's just that people have this deeply embedded feeling that they are entitled to digital content, without ever really thinking about monetization.