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Paying for individual publications you like is fine. Paying for all the publications that get articles on the HN front page would be very expensive. Only a min
by graemep 2mo ago
Paying for individual publications you like is fine.
Paying for all the publications that get articles on the HN front page would be very expensive. Only a minority of people reading HN would have subscribed to any one publication. The result is that paywalled articles can only be properly discussed by a minority people. It also encourages discussion of the headline instead of the article.
- acdha 2mo agoThat still seems better than saying that we have a right to use other people’s work on our terms. People used to subscribe to multiple magazines and that paid for a lot of journalists.