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On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Each individual publisher most probably has their own rules, but also
> (probably) lacks the resources to police it.
>
> I know that Google has started paying to re-publish from some publishers.
>
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> bp
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> On 3/16/2025 11:22 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
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> Much of what I want to read now requires a subscription, and I have given
> up and subscribed to a few paywalled sites and some Substacks. Typically
> these let you read everything on their website and also receive email
> newsletters.
>
>
>
> What is the etiquette around sharing such content? Some let you send
> someone a free one month subscription, but that seems like selling
> subscriptions to your friends. If I just send a link to an article, I
> assume they will hit the paywall. In some cases you can cut and paste from
> the HTML or PDF but that’s a bit tedious and probably frowned upon.
>
>
>
> Should I just assume if other people want to see the content they will
> have their own subscriptions? Google News isn’t shy about linking to
> paywalled articles, that happens to me about half the time I click on a
> link, and I’m sorry, I’m not going to subscribe to Fortune or Barrons or
> WSJ or Rolling Stone or Mother Jones just to read the occasional article
> that appears in a news feed.
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