[manigandham]

How is this a fallacy?

It seems like you just cherry picked a few small sites and claim that if they can do it, everyone can.

Sure hosting costs are ridiculous cheap and now anyone can publish for next to nothing. But do you get all your content from your friends posts on Facebook? There's a reason why real original and valuable content requires dedicated staff to do it and that does cost money.

You don't look at movies and think "well that could just be done for free if they really cared about it" so why attribute that to good content that just happens to be in another medium?

[anc84]

I buy physical good newspapers and magazines with cash. They don't track me, they can't DRM paper, I prefer that.

[manigandham]

Your first comment was how content can/should be free but now you're saying you paid cash for newspapers - how is that related?

The whole point is content does cost money, regardless of medium. Just because it's an article online doesn't mean it's free.

If you prefer a certain type of medium that's fine, but that doesn't mean other types aren't valid or hold value.