Tuesday, March 29, 2011

NYT Paywall Easily Cracked -LOL

NYT Paywall Easily Cracked – By Design
 
That was quick: Four lines of code is all it takes for The New York Times’ paywall to come tumbling down

New York Night Crawler

  This news is from last week, but since the New York Times ‘paywall’ goes into effect tomorrow, we thought it was quite timely. From Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab:

Hilariously, this article goes on to suggest that even though the New York Times spent $40 to $50 million dollars erecting this ‘paywall,’ they intended it to be easily defeated:

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Only the Solons at Harvard school for journalism could concoct such a laughable theory when the truth is so painfully obvious.

The Times screwed up. Big time.

The first comment to this Sweetness and Light story says it all"

Swamp Thing

This begs the question: does anyone bother to read the NYT any more?

Related DC article "How to get around the New York Times's pretend pay wall


Freida Cumangough

5 comments:

Helly said...

The real joke is on the yobs who invested so much effort breaking into NYT content.

That's like putting your arm down public toilets to gather lost coins. So easy, even a Democrat can do it.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Agreed. Ten years ago the TIMES still had clout, scripting as they did the nightly news coverage. They still do I guess, but nobody watches television news, so there you have it. Turds in the punch bowl, so to speak.

molonlabe28 said...

I can live without the NYT.

This is similar to the experiment the NYT conducted 4 or 5 years ago when it tried to charge for its editorials (Dowd, Rich, Brooks, et al).

All that did was further marginalize its odious slate of editors.

The NYT is a joke.

Anonymous said...

I already have a watch; why do I need a New York Timex?

The Comet H

Jim - PRS said...

I can't imagine anyone (who doesn't have shit for brains) wanting to bother taking the time and expending the effort to crack the paywall. Hell, I long since stopped expending the effort even to click.

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