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Pay Or Else, News Site Threatens
WED Fan writes "The North Country Gazette, a news blog, says users who read beyond a single page of an article must pay up or they will be tracked down. They don't have a pay wall. If you go beyond page 1, you owe them. From the article: 'A subscription is required at North Country Gazette. We allow only one free read per visitor. We are currently gathering IPs and computer info on persistent intruders who refuse to buy subscription and are engaging in a theft of services. We have engaged an attorney who will be doing a bulk subpoena demand on each ISP involved, particularly Verizon Droids, Frontier and Road Runner, and will then pursue individual legal actions.'"
Seems like a perfect solution to declining readership - sue them until they pay.
Uh oh, I guess I shouldn't have hit refresh 50 times!
0 Comments when I hit reply, and the site is already down.
Why do I suspect that somewhere in "upstate New York" there's a DSL modem sitting on a static IP that just got reduced to a molten pile of slag?
I'm going to go to the local StarBucks and register in their name and address and read/download about 100,000 pages. I hope they send starbucks a nice fat bill... Never did like them.
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All the new articles seem to be password protected. Furthermore, I do not see a "purchase access" link anywhere on the front page. With that kind of usability, I'm sure tens of people will subscribe to them!
How much does a page that reads "Error establishing a database connection" cost? I mean, I think local news is good, but if that's your only headline...
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That's horrid! Time to alert 4chan to help save them!
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Oh, Slashdot...didn't you sillies read their "do not 403 this website" warning?
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I just read 2 articles. I invite them to hire a Canadian lawyer to come after me.
Some of what I say is fact, some is conjecture, the rest I'm just blowing out my ass...you guess.
I just read about 100 articles.
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But you can go #1 for free. You only have to pay if you go #2.
Or just use wget --mirror --delete-after?
I don't think FrontPage has a paywall button.
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Dear God, someone get that woman a Slashdot account.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Oh, Slashdot...didn't you sillies read their "do not 403 this website" warning?
What "do not 403 this website" warning? I couldn't see anything; the page 403'd on me.
Let q be a radix > 1. I am in ur base-q, killing 10 d00ds.
Does the 403 page count as my one freebie?
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