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I'd read the article, but apparently I've read my 10 NYT articles for the month. I'm sure there's a way around it, but I don't want to bother. THAT is why folk

by milesf 13y ago

I'd read the article, but apparently I've read my 10 NYT articles for the month. I'm sure there's a way around it, but I don't want to bother. THAT is why folks like Glenn Greenwald are the future, because they won't hide behind foolish paywalls.

unimpressive 13y ago
How do you think they should finance their operations? Honest question. If you have something brilliant there's obviously a market opportunity here.
- crgt 13y ago
  Are there any sites experimenting with micro payments? I don't really want another recurring monthly subscription, but I might be willing to pay 1-5 cents for each article beyond the 10 monthly freebies, if they could figure out a way to make the payment method frictionless enough.
  - unimpressive 13y ago
    Turns out you and me are on the same page. Ever since I heard of the concept of micropayments I've felt they were the way forward. Unfortunately, I feel that until somebody with the perseverance of the Collison brothers shows up to hack through the legal schlep, a usable micropayment processor that does real micropayments (I could pull out a quote from Theodore Nelson here about fractions of a cent, but I won't bother.) won't materialize.
    - girvo 13y ago
      I think it'd be quite a market for easy integration of an internet-wide micropayment system using BitCoin, if BitCoin continues its growth and acceptance. Seems like a really good fit.
      - XorNot 13y ago
        Bitcoin is entirely unsuited to micropayments because it takes a long time to verify it (~20 minutes, rather then <1 second) and it's already having issues with the ballooning size of the blockchain. Putting another few million transactions a day through it will make it completely unsustainable.
        girvo 13y ago
        That's a good point, I remember seeing an article on the impact Satoshi Dice has had on the blockchain. A shame really.
crapshoot101 13y ago
Yes, damn that content creator wanting to try and charge you for their content!
letney 13y ago
The Honolulu Civil Beat, the primary news site run by Greenwald's new boss/funder Pierre Omidyar, is subscription based. http://m.civilbeat.com/info/membership/ http://m.civilbeat.com/info/membership/
- petercooper 13y ago
  Sure, but then articles from there wouldn't end up on HN because they wouldn't be public. The NYT wants to have their cake and eat it too.
  - dublinben 13y ago
    The NSFWcorp method of letting a subscriber temporarily unlock an article seems like a good compromise. I'm certainly much closer to subscribing than if I'd never read any articles.
    - petercooper 13y ago
      I concur. I've seen that work well especially for community oriented titles (LWN does this, I seem to recall, as does the Practicing Ruby journal).
andreipop 13y ago
open in incognito window (cmd+shift+n)... yeesh.
- a3voices 13y ago
  That's a good tip, I hadn't thought of that.

by milesf 13y ago

unimpressive 13y ago

How do you think they should finance their operations? Honest question. If you have something brilliant there's obviously a market opportunity here.

crgt 13y ago
Are there any sites experimenting with micro payments? I don't really want another recurring monthly subscription, but I might be willing to pay 1-5 cents for each article beyond the 10 monthly freebies, if they could figure out a way to make the payment method frictionless enough.
- unimpressive 13y ago
  Turns out you and me are on the same page. Ever since I heard of the concept of micropayments I've felt they were the way forward. Unfortunately, I feel that until somebody with the perseverance of the Collison brothers shows up to hack through the legal schlep, a usable micropayment processor that does real micropayments (I could pull out a quote from Theodore Nelson here about fractions of a cent, but I won't bother.) won't materialize.
  - girvo 13y ago
    I think it'd be quite a market for easy integration of an internet-wide micropayment system using BitCoin, if BitCoin continues its growth and acceptance. Seems like a really good fit.
    - XorNot 13y ago
      Bitcoin is entirely unsuited to micropayments because it takes a long time to verify it (~20 minutes, rather then <1 second) and it's already having issues with the ballooning size of the blockchain. Putting another few million transactions a day through it will make it completely unsustainable.
      - girvo 13y ago
        That's a good point, I remember seeing an article on the impact Satoshi Dice has had on the blockchain. A shame really.

crapshoot101 13y ago

Yes, damn that content creator wanting to try and charge you for their content!

letney 13y ago

The Honolulu Civil Beat, the primary news site run by Greenwald's new boss/funder Pierre Omidyar, is subscription based. http://m.civilbeat.com/info/membership/ http://m.civilbeat.com/info/membership/

petercooper 13y ago
Sure, but then articles from there wouldn't end up on HN because they wouldn't be public. The NYT wants to have their cake and eat it too.
- dublinben 13y ago
  The NSFWcorp method of letting a subscriber temporarily unlock an article seems like a good compromise. I'm certainly much closer to subscribing than if I'd never read any articles.
  - petercooper 13y ago
    I concur. I've seen that work well especially for community oriented titles (LWN does this, I seem to recall, as does the Practicing Ruby journal).

andreipop 13y ago

open in incognito window (cmd+shift+n)... yeesh.

a3voices 13y ago
That's a good tip, I hadn't thought of that.