With every new announcement, the sense of inevitability grows stronger. Yahoo is considering charging for content, and CNN is ready to do the same.

In the initial confusion the announcement, it sounded as though the CNN was going to be charging a fee for everything. But online news giant will only be charging for video. This makes a lot of sense, given:

• video is a bandwidth hog
• there’s an infrastructure already in place for video fees
• video is unique to CNN

Nevertheless, CNN’s plans generated a lot of reaction in discussion forums across the Net like evolt.org’s.

Adding to the debate was a Jupiter Media Metrix survey showing support for online subscriptions has dropped since 2000.

But perhaps the most lucid comment came from Foxsports.com’s Ross Levinsohn: “I don’t think the future is too far off where most sites will turn off a lot of the freeness”