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I commend all those who take the risk of setting up these bypasses. You take enormous personal legal risk in providing a service that morally shouldn't have been paywalled in the first place. Knowledge wants to be free after all.
venusenvy47•6mo ago
Can't these services be run from a country where The News/Media Alliance doesn't have jurisdiction?
Frustrating. Someday, I'd like to see headlines that focus on news publishers working on reasonable payment systems for article access. Like bulk buys ( X articles for $) via giftcard or whatever. Instead, every single time this comes up, it always ends with less access, more siloing...less connections made, more cruft to shift. Innovation requires access to info, but if you never see it...it's hard to make connections that count or that could be helpful. Same problem that appears in Science research...if only on a smaller scale.
BallsInIt•6mo ago
Repeatedly DMCA'd so you know it's good.
aspenmayer•6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bypass_Paywalls_Clean#Web...
nikcub•6mo ago