News Corp Will Charge For Newspaper Websites

suraj.sun writes "Rupert Murdoch says having free newspaper websites is a 'flawed' business model. Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation's newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a 'malfunctioning' business model. Encouraged by booming online subscription revenues at the Wall Street Journal, the billionaire media mogul last night said that papers were going through an 'epochal' debate over whether to charge. 'That it is possible to charge for content on the web is obvious from the Wall Street Journal's experience,' he said."

Comments

Screw them

[vivek7006]

WSJ gives free access to premium content if you are being redirected from google, facebook, digg etc. Here is a dirty little secret. The entire content on WSJ is available to you for free, if you can trick WSJ into believing that you have been directed to their webpage via digg.com!

Step1) Use firefox
Step2) Install refspoof http://refspoof.mozdev.org/
Step3) Install greasemonkey https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
Step4) Install this script in greasemonkey http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/42134
Step5) Profit!!

Re:Screw them

[MightyYar]

If you don't want to install that stuff, and you come upon WSJ articles infrequently then there is another trick:
1. Click on the regular "for-pay" link.
2. When you get to the irritating half-article thing, just cut the link from the toolbar.
3. Paste it into a google search.
4. Click on the first link that comes up and read the whole article.

Re:WSJ

[Kozar_The_Malignant]

The thing with the Wall Street Journal is that most of the subscriptions are directly paid by companies or else put on the subscribers expense account.

[citation needed]

OK