[Upd-discuss] Wired on BBC Creative Archive

[Dean Anderson]

This only works for RSS feeds, which are the "headlines" that go up on web 
portals.  It is not the same as linking to random articles.  This amounts 
to essentially 'stories that are on the front page, are free.'

		--Dean

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Peter Eckersley wrote:

> 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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