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There are 3 obvious areas of monetization:

- paid private repositories on npm or a parallel system (think github)

- paid internal npm servers with support (think github enterprise)

- statistics that used to be available, like download counts (think imgur pro)

Download counts are coming back. This is literally in progress right now, and was only removed due to technical difficulties.

Thanks Isaac. Are there any additional metrics being made public as well?

Stats in general seem like a pretty horrible monetization strategy considering the other obvious routes that would not be met with service-killing scorn. I would be shocked if the first option was not the route they take, with the second possibly coming later.

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