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The irony of bypassing the paywall to an article talking about publications dying and how hard it is for publications to make money.
by PaulsWallet 4y ago
The irony of bypassing the paywall to an article talking about publications dying and how hard it is for publications to make money.
- jacobr1 4y agoMost media sites lower their paywall for archive.org for altruistic reasons. I wonder if there is some kind of compromise where the paywall only goes down after X days (presumably most interest occurs within the first few days publishing). It would still service the archival mission, but would diminish the use of the archive as a bypass of the paywall. It won't help if the basic economics aren't there. And maybe the free-readers wouldn't read anyway on average if the paywall remained (the old napster argument). But it might be a good compromise on the margin.
- stavros 4y agoYes but this isn't archive.org.
- greenie_beans 4y agoyes it is
- stavros 4y agoPlease cite your sources.
- greenie_beans 4y agoah! wow, i always assumed this but just learned that i am wrong. thanks
- stavros 4y agoYou're welcome, I wasn't entirely sure but I was 99% sure this wasn't run by archive.org, that's why I asked for a reference.
- greenie_beans 4y agolol i buy struggling broke ass literary magazines though