So is there a way to make bbc.com articles available to us in a way that doesn't involve unfair promotion? The problem is that I can't read an article that som

So is there a way to make bbc.com articles available to us in a way that doesn't involve unfair promotion? The problem is that I can't read an article that somebody else referred me to. He's already promoting it. I don't think it'd be unfair to give me access on that basis. Browsing bbc.com through the front page? I'm not interested in that anyway. LWN.net do "subscriber links", where a subscriber can share a subscriber-only article. What if bbc.com did that, so that readers can share an article with everyone? This is subject to abuse, of course. LWN.net control it (presumably) by controlling subscriptions, since only subscribers can generate subscriber links and the links are unique and trackable. But I can think of some mitigation strategies for this, and am not sure that abuse will be such a big deal.