Free content a "birth defect of the Internet"?. The T-Online boss apparently has some comprehension difficulties. I consider it a personal insult to all those who built the Internet in the first place and made it what it is, when their achievement is called a "birth defect" — as if it were some kind of disability, deficiency, or deficit. These commercial rip-off artists are now profiting from things we built, making the network interesting, and contributing our own accomplishments. What Mr. Holtrop doesn't understand: people are the Internet, not commercial megacorporations that can't think beyond their stock dividends.
What's reassuring: when Mr. Holtrop gets fired for incompetence and T-Online has to realign its strategy again because it turns out that those great paid contents weren't so great after all (which wouldn't be the first time for T-Online), the free content and personal commitment will still be there.
People, boycott this nonsense, show those trying to sell off the Internet that they can't count on your cooperation!