It may not disappear, but everything IS quickly becoming a service or a subscription. There won't be any place on the internet that isn't free. I'm waiting for Facebook and Twitter to start charging people for access...
Money doesn't grow on trees. And people salaries usually don't increase every month. So, sooner or later EVERYONE is going to have to pick and choose what they want to be a part of...
That might be a good thing in terms of getting rid of trolls and such, but...
As a society it won't be a good thing. The internet will fracture into millions of pieces. Everyone will only be able to choose a few of those pieces... Especially if every place decides to charge $33.00 A MONTH to access it.
And what makes this worse, is how it seems we have to have it all, in order to keep ourselves from "living under rocks" and for basic survival.
I still don't understand why everyone has to buy the newest iPhone every year... Doesn't last years model still work and make phone calls? (It must be nice to have so much money that you can throw away millions of things you own every year and go out and buy all new.)
Clothing, Food, Utilities, Insurance, Healthcare, Gasoline, Computer Maintenance, Communications, Entertainment, TAXES... And now God Only Knows how many services and subscriptions...
$33.00 A MONTH for photo hotlinking too?
I can't afford that. Heck, I already can't afford most of what people are charging now.
It may not happen soon, but at the rate we are going with having to pay for every little thing just to access the internet... Sooner or later, the Great Internet Collapse will come...