Pay Or Else, News Site Threatens

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @10:47AM from the good-luck-with-that dept.

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.'"

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Re:Clueless by commodore64_love · 2010-10-27 11:28 · Score: 0, Redundant

FORBIDDEN
You do not have permission to access http://www.northcountrygazette.org/ on this server.
Wow that was fast.

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Oblig. by Facegarden · 2010-10-27 11:58 · Score: 0, Redundant

By reading more than five words of this post, you now owe me $50. Additionally, I consider blinking to be a second viewing. Successive views cost $(50^n) where n is the number of sandwiches in the nearest bakery.
-Taylor

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