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That’s totally fair, but you can just not read articles in publications you don’t want to buy, right?
by bradleyjg 7y ago
That’s totally fair, but you can just not read articles in publications you don’t want to buy, right?
- DennisP 7y agoI could, but since the publisher doesn't get my money either way, and showing me the article costs about the same as showing me a paywall page, I don't see the point. Bypassing paywalls seems to me about as offensive as going to a bookstore and looking through a magazine without buying it. Maybe I end up buying a magazine, but I'm not going to buy every magazine I pick up, and basically everybody thinks that's fine.
- bradleyjg 7y agoI’d say bypassing a paywall is like tearing the plastic off a sealed magazine. If the publisher was okay with you thumbing through it they wouldn’t have sealed it in plastic. Same with a paywall. Publishers have the option of a nag screen instead if they want to go that route.