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Gifs wont be fee-based anytime soon if ever there was talk along time ago about it when CompuServ was a more independant company but CompuServ is now owned by AOL Time Warner and making a few more dollars isnt urgent to AOL at this time. Not to mention it would required lots of legal litigation as they would be backing out of hundreds of contracts and agreements with software vendors and end-users so its very unlikely to ever see this occur kinda like the same thing with Mpegs becoming pay to use its just not gonna happen.