This thread is a dupe of this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=971331 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=971331 In that thread I've explained what Fir

This thread is a dupe of this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=971331 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=971331 In that thread I've explained what First Click Free really is (its not new), because the BBC article is quite misleading. This is a small policy change to throw a bone to top-tier publishers like NYTimes, and is unlikely to have the impact you've described. More here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=971414 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=971414