Is there a micropayment option or something? I wish I could friction-free, buy access to these sites al al carte without dealing with them directly or setting up a recurring subscription directly with them.
replyBest we can do is a monthly subscription, with every dark pattern known to man to prevent cancellation.
replyCopyright isn't being circumvented - the content of the website is made available for the public and the website just grabs what is publicly available.
replyRedistributing copyrighted content is the literal definition of copyright infringement. Using it for your own purposes, without distribution, is another story.
replyThis link was posted with intent to facilitate the distribution of copyrighted material. The person who posted it justified posting the link by saying some people don't have a subscription.
I understand that some people think copyright shouldn't exist, but it clearly is being circumvented here.
In the context of use on hacker news, I think the fair use exemption for public comment is a sufficient justification, which is likely why they allow its use.
replyI'll start caring about copyright when the government starts caring about my personal information that is being traded around the internet (with the help of journalism). Information is money, and we're all being stolen from.
replyLegally it's infringement but I don't have a lot of sympathy for semi-porous paywalls getting circumvented. If they don't want free readers, they can set up a hard paywall. If they offer free samples and I occasionally take one I'm not going to feel bad about it, or worry about that specific type of copyright infringement making it more difficult for journalists to make a living.
replyThey should learn to code.
replyI'm a subscriber, but not everyone is.
replySubscribers can share the link as a gift, so readers can see the original, not the proxied version.
replyI cannot trust that a gift link does not tie to my IRL identity I subscribe under. I can trust that archive links do not. The NY Times gets my money either way. It's an opsec concern. Trust no one.
replyIf someone wants to post gift links in every thread, just let me know who to pay to enable that, I am happy to.
And by making it easy for them to circumvent copyright, they have even less incentive to support the journalists who did the reporting.
replyI don't know why this is downvoted, it's the truth. NYT actually has a "gift article" functionality that makes it easy to share articles with non-subscribers.
replyYou are 100% correct. I find the attitude that everything should be free a bit tedious. But then again, why does the truth have to be paywalled while lies are free. I believe it is a detriment to society that we cannot publicly find reporting. Yes I know now come the cynics who will argue bias. But that’s just a failure of reading comprehension, not fair reporting doctrine.
replySo yes. I’m with you 100%.