If an "electronic retailer" [does he short out in the rain?] wants my business he'd better not charge me for looking at his goods...
...and hopefully search engines and [some] forums want the most hits they can for advertising revenue..etc, so they should continue to be free . I'd hazzard a guess that a lot of personal pages and smaller traders may get hit by charges?? - who knows.

So we're unlikely to be stung to death.

Remember the [general] non-event that the year2k bug turned out to be, because we all thought our way around it.