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Babycakes: "Last night, I made chocolate babycakes. I had seen Nigella Lawson's recipe in the Times two weeks ago... I even ripped it out. But I lost the clipping and went back online to print out it. Alas, they wanted $3.95 to access it: Two Paths to Glory: Smashing Desserts - Free Preview. (The free preview is a paragraph). Ever resourceful, I did a google search and found, gasp, 39,000 matches, including the entire recipe. The key to charging for content is a limited number of channels or a secure 'locking' mechanism. The web offers neither. As people get better at searching (and they do, every day), the chances that you can charge for nuggets of non-custom information go down, relentlessly. PS I wonder why I don't feel like I stole the recipe... ...If I hadn't lost the clipping, I certainly wouldn't have been stealing. And those 39,000 recipes didn't all come from Nigella... I wonder where Nigella got her version?"