One very popular paywalled news site I use allows you to freely share links to individual pages. For now, that seems to work for them. As for paywalled music:

One very popular paywalled news site I use allows you to freely share links to individual pages. For now, that seems to work for them. As for paywalled music: artists were getting screwed before. Maybe more so, maybe less so, but many were getting screwed. Either way, maintaining the status quo doesn't seem like a good solution, so why try and maintain that. I'd rather see the whole deal collapse so that new things can be tried.