A couple of comments here talking about how this is piracy, none discussing the fact that paywalls are a completely broken business model in an era where sharin

A couple of comments here talking about how this is piracy, none discussing the fact that paywalls are a completely broken business model in an era where sharing information with your friends/online communities is so important. Back in the day, with physical paper, if you wanted to discuss an article with someone you'd simply hand them the paper and point. Now, people simply don't share paywalled articles, or if they do someone will comment an archived link immediately. As Gabe Newell once said, "piracy is almost always a service problem". If the media companies started delivering the product in a way that people actually want the problem of piracy would disappear overnight. Just shooting the shit, but $x a month to read the paper, with a button to generate un-paywalled links to share with friends and family, and $y a month for a "thought leader" version that lets you generate un-paywalled links with unlimited circulation would let people consume and share news the way they actually want to while still being monetisable. Trying to charge everyone who looks at your article in an era where success is defined by virality is just dumb.