Did anyone else get the notification that newscientist is about to start charing for articles? This was one of my favorite websites, but I doubt I'll actually

Did anyone else get the notification that newscientist is about to start charing for articles? This was one of my favorite websites, but I doubt I'll actually subscribe to it. I might pick up a dead-tree copy at barnes and noble every once in a while; maybe that was their intention? /sorry for the threadjack.