[Upd-discuss] Wired on BBC Creative Archive

[Richard Stallman]

    My company has long provided one of their key publications on the web
    for free, and is considering charging for it. They are looking at the
    NYT model with a difference - articles less than a week old are free,
    articles more than x years old are free, anything else is subscription
    only.

It is quite unfortunate when newspapers do this.  I used to make many
links to articles from The Independent, but now I never do, because I
know the articles will become inaccessible after a week or so.

It would be much better to charge for access to the latest articles
and provide free access once they are a week old.  Then the articles
would be useful to link to after just a week.