Are there some types of content where the author, photographer, etc will produce it without direct compensation?  Sure.<p>Are there others where that&#x27;s not practical?  Also, yes. Maybe not things that you need, but this problem does exist.<p>At the moment, there&#x27;s not a model, outside of ads, that works very well for that sort of thing.  There are some subscription&#x2F;micropayment schemes that seem promising, but nothing that works as well as ads do.