Recording artists who create a product expect revenues and royalties - and are in the courts fighting the Napster mechanism by which those same products are distributed freely. That's pretty good cash for a family business. For now we have this pesky Internet, a wondrous mix of newspapers and radio and TV and Las Vegas at your fingertips. Free and mainly unfettered. Where the line is drawn, and how my magazine writing weighs against my SpeedFX commitment is more than an intellectual exercise.
Some sites are mainly a collection of links.
Most are unsupported commercially. This is irksome in Daytona Beach for a couple of reasons. Less than 20 years ago, the local and regional newspapers helped sustain the sport until television caught up. Newspapers are tangible - you can angrily wave a story in a writer's face or fax it from office to office. You can see it, you can burn it, you can rip it up and make it go away.