I paid $5 for a MetaFilter account - good intentions, then never used it. That was about 3 years ago.
Other stuff - last.fm, flickr (although its not the content that they charge for), emusic.
I wonder if the BBC iPlayer counts? There's a TV license after all.
In terms of news/informational content, I have a subscribtion to New Scientist (dead-tree format), which gives me access to their online archives. But I didn't pay specifically for those archives.
I was also a paid-up member of Daring Fireball when John Gruber first went full-time with it. But again, that was to get a shirt more than the content itself.
As moxy says, you can get pretty much anything free if you look hard enough. Seems in my case I'm buying a physical item with 'free' content attached, rather than the content itself.
Other stuff - last.fm, flickr (although its not the content that they charge for), emusic. I wonder if the BBC iPlayer counts? There's a TV license after all.
In terms of news/informational content, I have a subscribtion to New Scientist (dead-tree format), which gives me access to their online archives. But I didn't pay specifically for those archives. I was also a paid-up member of Daring Fireball when John Gruber first went full-time with it. But again, that was to get a shirt more than the content itself.
As moxy says, you can get pretty much anything free if you look hard enough. Seems in my case I'm buying a physical item with 'free' content attached, rather than the content itself.