Originally Posted by Paul Markham

This industry has degenerated to position where 5 people a day willing to pay for membership needs 10000 freeloaders a day. In some cases it's even worse.

Count the number of views on samples, not the number who can be bothered to buy.

The reasons are simple. Rarely do we see something that inspires enough to warrant someone to click and even less to buy after taking a tour. Because the free version is the better. There are exceptions but few and far between. Even back in the good old days the only reason people bought was they had to, remove that and it's downhill all the way.