I believe you missed my point. All of the users are who bring value to FR, by our posting of news and discussing it is what makes this site valuable. I'm just pointing out that this site has a problem like napster (not legal issues, but how do you charge for it). If they charge then a lot of the posters will go away. Without all the posters the site is less valuable. The less valuable the site the less people will visit.
I like the idea suggested a while ago in this thread (I can't remember who said it sorry whoever did). It was basically to charge anyone who wanted to
post, but not anyone who wanted to
lurk.
I think that idea has some potential. Maybe even divide it up more and make it so you can pay to post like one time, or pay like a monthly post fee for unlimited posting.