Is the so-called "pay wall" doomed?

It's good news, if you're a reader, but maybe bad news if you're a publisher who had hoped for an additional stream of revenue. The "pay wall" at the New York Times that restricted access to some content -- principally the paper's marquee columnists -- may soon fall.[UPDATE: A story in Advertising Age reports that other pillars of paid online news are falling or have fallen: The Economist and CNN