[Upd-discuss] Wired on BBC Creative Archive

[Peter Eckersley]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:51:03PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     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.
> 

The New York Times has an interesting response to this particular annoyance.
They allow visitors to the archive to follow links from blogs for free, while
other visitors searching for the same article would need to pay for access.

Details: http://backend.userland.com/2003/06/16

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Peter Eckersley
Department of Computer Science   &                  mailto:pde@cs.mu.oz.au 
IP Research Institute of Australia             http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~pde
The University of Melbourne