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dickthegrouch

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22. Part of the reason journalism is dead is plainly exhibited up-thread

Reply to BadgerMom (Reply #17)

Wed May 28, 2025, 12:30 PM

May 28

How casually people drop instructions on how to avoid paywalls, and their diligence in finding ways of depriving the writer of the just source of their revenue.

Possibly the same people that rightly decry the copyright violation of AI companies hoovering up all content for model training purposes.

Yes an archive is a good thing, but was it created using a similar technique for violating copyright?

We used to pay for newspapers and that funded mostly good journalism. Now we want everything for free, and we get what we are “paying” for.

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