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Paywalls: the tricky trouble with the internets
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Rupert Murdoch has had a lot to say lately about the internet, and how a modern media mogul might milk it for corporate gain. Paywalls appear to be a key to the Sun King’s strategic thinking, restrictions around content to squeeze micro-payments from an eager readership. We already have one right here at News Corp, Murdoch enthuses. “We have it already with the Wall Street Journal. We have a wall, but it’s not right to the ceiling. You can get, usually, the first paragraph from any story — but if you’re not a paying subscriber to WSJ.com all you get is a paragraph and a subscription form.” We hate to break this to you Rupert, but the WSJ doesn’t so much have a paywall as a permeable membrane. You can read anything you like on the site, in full and for free. This is how you do it:
We point this out just by way of showing what a tricky thing these internets can be. Sorry Rupe, but there it is. |
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Too tricky for me obviously, cause I tried it and it achieved precisely nothing.
It’s working! It’s working! (for me anyway).
Poor Rupert. News Corp isn’t very good at the internet thing. Someone who’s responsible for locking the Wall Street Journal content to non-subscribers is about to have a very bad day.
OK, what are you people doing that I’m missing?
That is brilliant. It worked for me.
@ joal
Follow the instructions above exactly, you can’t go wrong.
Damn, it doesn’t work with Crikey.
Looks like I’ll have to keep paying the mongrels (and FDOTM)
“Follow the instructions above exactly, you can’t go wrong.”
I did. :p
This is cool and all but why would you want to read the WSJ.
Heh, I misread the instructions and pasted the url of the truncated article into Google, but it still worked
. I might have lost my WSJ virginity doing that, but I swear I didn’t see anything worth reading, so I think its’s safe.
For anyone still reading this, I thought I’d update…
I tried it at home, and it worked as promised quite straightforwardly.
Having tried it from work multiple times without success… well, that’s a bit confusing. But there it is.
I have a theory which I may try out tomorrow.
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