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Legally speaking, in the vast majority of the cases it is fair since there's hardly a law against charging for online services. From an ethical point of view, anyone's mileage may vary. On one hand server costs get covered and other online infrastructure becomes well maintained or improved such as better network security, game servers remain longer for the duration of it's lifetime and content is better archived but on the other hand the costs are passed down to the customers ...