Originally Posted by The fine folks at Contenture

Contenture is a new way to monetize your web site using a revolutionary patent-pending micropayment system that fixes all of the complexity of traditional micropayment systems. With other systems, users must authorize each and every payment they want to make. This just simply does not work. The experience must be seamless, or users get annoyed and the web sites don't make money.

Contenture fixes this with a fully automated system that requires no user interaction. Users simply pay a set fee to Contenture on a monthly basis, and that money is automatically distributed to the sites they visit. How much each site gets from each user is determined by how often that user visits that web site, relative to all of the other Contenture sites they visit. Users get their seamless experience, and the site actually makes money. Everybody wins.