To us, the fundamental problem with micropayments is that they're a pain in the ass. Your flow is interrupted every time you have to authorize a 5 cent charge t

To us, the fundamental problem with micropayments is that they're a pain in the ass. Your flow is interrupted every time you have to authorize a 5 cent charge to view a piece of content. This doesn't work, never will. Contenture's system is fully automated. You pay a small monthly fee of 5.99 (which the sites get 80% of), and we automatically distribute that money to the sites you visit based on how often you visit them. While there are drawbacks to this sytem, certainly, we feel the advantage of a fully automated system vastly outweights any of that.