If you really think Brink is too expensive, even after considering all that we offer, we are certainly interested in what you have to say. But before you hit us with that tired 90's "information needs to be free" argument, we invite you to read what Internet pioneer Jaron Lanier wrote recently in the Times about paying for content. He makes the point that information is only free today because we made it that way. Somehow our idealism got in the way of common sense.

When did it become politically correct to sell advertising for content gathered from free sources? Isn't this exactly what MySpace and Facebook are doing?

Call us Idealists and call Brink a grand social experiment, but we'd rather see our users create content worth something and then be paid that something for it. That's our system. If you still don't think we offer enough to charge you for it, tell us why.