In fact, I used to buy this newspaper off newstands for many, many years. I don’t use it very often, in fact I read those paywalled articles much less often than I would if I had bought a subscription. I have discovered, purely by chance, a technical way to defeat a newspaper’s paywall. It’s the same argument as with software or music piracy : I’m not stealing anything because I’m just copying bits, which does not reduce the number of bits possessed by the owner and I wouldn’t have subscribed anyway, even if the paywall (the “lock”) was unbreakable. Now the reason some people would still feel justified defeating a paywall has nothing to do with the door lock metaphor. To think otherwise is to be very ignorant of the law, and deeply morally flawed. I’m appalled someone can even ask the question, if that was the meaning of those comments. I’m not sure what the intention was here, but of course you’re committing a crime if you break into a stranger’s house because the lock offered little resistance.
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