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Isn't it a bit questionable to use these services to subvert paywalls? I dislike the notion of DRM and paywalls and I especially abhor it when it is limiting ac
by krastanov 8y ago
Isn't it a bit questionable to use these services to subvert paywalls? I dislike the notion of DRM and paywalls and I especially abhor it when it is limiting access to academic papers, but if a content creator does not want to give you access to their content without you paying, it seems reasonable to comply with their wishes.
- tzs 8y agoI can't find it now, but there is a comment from an HN moderator from a while back saying that it is OK to link to such pirated paywall news content if the usual tricks for bypassing the paywall (such as going to the site via a Google search result) don't work.
- howard941 8y agoThe Are paywalls ok? FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html ?
- tzs 8y agoI was thinking about an actual comment from a moderator in a regular thread discussion. In almost all the discussion I've seen from the mods when they talk about "workarounds" they were referring to ways to read the article on the original site. For example, searching for the article's title to find the link on Google and clicking that, or following the link in a private browsing window (often works for sites that give everyone N free articles per month). I never got the impression that linking to pirate copies of the article counted, but then found a moderator comment that said it was OK. I don't remember the exact context, but I think it was in a thread where an account that posts a lot of such links did so, someone asked if this was OK, and a moderator said it was.