[Upd-discuss] Wired on BBC Creative Archive

[jbsoufron@free.fr]

As for myself, I simply save the article on my hd in html, then I make a link 
from my browser to the file in my hd... 

simple... 

Then I can enjoy the article as long as I want and I can even send it to 
friends or copy/paste it when I write an article! 

I don't know if your business model has any cash value but as it is quite 
annoying to users, you should check for it carefully before changing anything 
to what your customers are used to.



Quoting Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:

>     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.
> 
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