So NYPL is dumping Kanopy. Buckle up kiddies, your Auntie Wendy is here to explain the devil that is the pay-per-use model. Or as I like to call it - why you'll find Wendy crying in her office the first of the month. Kanopy and Hoopla are both pay-per-use. What does this mean? Patrons get access to the entire catalog (yippee!) and the library only pays when a title is checked-out/streamed. A good theory, but in practice? Not so much.