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Ripping from Netflix and sharing is hard. Total idiots can copy/paste articles. I see full paywalled articles copy/pasted into Reddit threads every day, and i

• gooseus 10y ago
  Agreed, but why do that when the paywall is designed only to make a set amount of money in total and then make it public for everyone? My assumption is that people release paywalled content free as as a form of protest, I would think that with the proper model piracy would be reduced to negligible harm. A twist on this model could also be to put a secondary release for the content that is time-based. So the content is going to be freely available no matter what, why pay even $1 to be Robin Hood when everyone is just going to need to wait a few days - week to get it?