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If I hit the paywall when I see an article I want to read, I just google the headline and click the link. NYT are swimming against the current. You don't pay for news through the computer, and if you try to force people to, they'll either find a way around it or find the same information elsewhere.
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I've watched carefully since NYT began its paywall, and I have not yet encountered any 'content' that (a) I was blocked from seeing for free (if only because I hadn't reached my quota or whatever) or (b) was compelling enough to pay for.

I find it uncanny how 'content' that goes from free to fee-based never seems to drop the number of ads it shovels into your face. This isn't just the internets. Because I am something like 87 years old, I remember when cable tee-vee first popped onto the scene and a big part of the hype -- justified for the first, oh, hour and a half -- was that it was ad-free. Now try to make it through the last 20 minutes of a movie on TNT without wanting to slash someone's wrists over the constant interruptions from blaring ads.

In short, get off my lawn.

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