Is the paywall gone?
No!
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#22Disabled for The NY Times
Blocked by Bloomberg
Doesn't work on WSJ
Did this work anywhere?
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#23> Paywalls offend me. The Internet exists to share knowledge with everyone across the world. You shouldn’t need a subscription, all you should need is an internet connection to access the world’s knowledge.
That is some Grade-A willful ignorance. Professional writers who perform their due diligence get paid. Professional photographers who travel and document important causes get paid. Editors who ensure accuracy and good writing get paid.
Good, shareable knowledge costs money to produce and you're supposed to pay for it.
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#24No, the answer is that we as a community ignore content behind paywalls and they will fade from relevance.
>they will fade from relevance.
Yeah that's what was said when the first few publications trialed the model. Instead of fading the model spread far and wide
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#25How long before this starts being monetized? “Surely you can see that paying for a single monthly subscription beats paying many?”
Given it doesn't seem to work all that well, I wouldn't be worried. There have been many attempts to federate paywalls but the publishers will never play ball.
If it starts making money, publisher will put in the effort to block it. It's not a viable business.
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#27How long before this starts being monetized? “Surely you can see that paying for a single monthly subscription beats paying many?”
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#28> Paywalls offend me. The Internet exists to share knowledge with everyone across the world. You shouldn’t need a subscription, all you should need is an internet connection to access the world’s knowledge. That is some Grade-A willful ignorance. Professional writers who perform their due diligence get paid. Professional photographers who travel and document important causes get paid. Editors who ensure accuracy and…
Piracy is a usability problem. People want to read one article, not subscribe for a year. This is just like pirating one song instead of buying the album.
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#29I've found this site fails more often than it succeeds unfortunately
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#30I’m still waiting for micro transactions. I won’t pay $5 a month for a newspaper I might read one article from but I would gladly pay 25 cents for that one good article. How are there still minimum amounts and fees on transactions when everything is supposedly digitized and networked?