Paywindows

A computer program product for controlling access to a plurality of digital content items by a plurality of consumers on devices connected to a network, the computer program product tangibly embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium and including instructions for causing a processor connected to the network to perform acts comprising:

• enabling access for a first of the plurality of consumers to one or more of the plurality of digital content items via online computer software attached to the one or more of the plurality of digital content items;
• displaying an identifier of the one or more of the plurality of digital content items together with an image of a plurality of selectable alternatives for making payments to enable access to the one or more of the plurality of digital content items, wherein the alternatives are selected from paying at least one of money and attention;
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• in response to the first consumer selecting one of the alternatives, the online computer software verifying proof of work of the payment money and attention.