In this day and age though, all of that stuff is online somewhere and for free.
You're right. But most of it is tertiary sources at best. The good info is watered down, spread out, and mixed in with the bad. There's a lot of "noise" on the internet. If you're getting 8.5 hours of video plus all the other stuff, and it's all right there in one spot and straight from the horse's mouth, that has value. You don't have to sift through the contradictory BS and fluff.
As somebody who has worked at 2 Universities, I thoroughly understand the reluctance to pay for information given the way higher education absolutely abuses people. There are lots of $4k courses ,that are 90% covered by the $200 textbook, that would be $20 if it wasn't published by Pearson and subsidized through Sallie Mae or FAFSA. But, there are college courses, books, podcasts, documentaries, journals, etc out there that are absolutely phenomenal deals.
I'm not really interested in what THP have to tell me about how to kill deer locally. Or about reading maps, or water access, or glassing fields, or ground hunting, or any of that other stuff. But I'm tempted to give them $80 just to hear their state-by-state breakdown since I'm into that kind of thing and they have experience in that area that probably 99% of hunters don't have.
It all depends on if you think you'll learn something. If you don't think you'll learn anything, it's not worth it. But if you do think they could tell you something you don't know, that would be useful information, and you won't pay for it because you can probably pick it up free somewhere else; ask yourself what will happen in a capitalist society when knowledge doesn't have a monetary value associated with it?