Now, now Posporo.
I've had my '**** liberalism' days, but your thinking isn't right in this.
As you might know, (or not) we are actually going through an internet advertisement crisis, meaning people don't pay as much as they used to. I have a couple of site of my own, and I wanted to make banner ads appear on them to pay for the .com registration (that's around 10 bucks a year or something). Well, you have several ways to get paid, one of the rarest is 'number of banners seen' meaning that for each guy connecting to a page of your site, you get money. Another one is for each click on the banner. But the amount of money you get is ridiculous, something like 25 cents for every 500 people seeing the ad, or the same amount for 100 clicks. Now, you might know that unless you site is yahoo.com or amazon.com or nakedchicks.com, if you go over 1000 visits per month, you're lucky. And that amounts to: 50 cents, or 2.50 dollars. To host a site, (not registering the .com) you pay money. Usually, you have 100Mo for it. And on guitarwar, there's 10/20 times that amount. The least I have seen for 100Mo is 4 bucks. That means that there's around 40/80 bucks in hosting per month. I think that since there's a lot of DL in it, it's more like 300 bucks. Then, there's the time running the site. Unless he's won the lottery, I think the webmaster deserves to eat. Well...If I'm wrong, correct me on the numbers.