A lot of people don't seem to have read the statement properly, they think the ps3's current service will subject to subscription charges. This is not true, so if your happy with the free service sony currently provide, (ie. online gaming, PSstore, demo's etc) then you have nothing to fear. The premium content will probably be things like subscription based gaming, like warhawk, or Netflix, or sony's upcoming itunes style music download service. So if you don't mind paying an extra £40 a year (like XBL) for these types of service or whatever sony has in mind, then go ahead and pay. If your happy with what your getting, just do nothing and enjoy the current free service. Word is that Microsoft will be doubling their gold service to £80, and that's just to play games online. So if sony can offer it's current service for free as well as a load of other practical and useful "premium" services for as little as £40 a year, that doesn't sound like a bad price to pay.