Huffington Post Fights Back Against NY Times Paywall 57
As you may recall, we've recently the New York Times' stumbling efforts to implement a paywall on their website. Now in an effort to combat the growing trend of hiding content behind annoying attempts at monetization, the Huffington Post has taken a strong stand against the paywall by setting up a paywall of their own that blocks out NY Times . "On HuffingtonPost.com you can view the first 6 letters of each word at no charge (including slideshows of adorable kittens). After 6 letters, we will ask you to become a digital . You may choose to subscribe to see the rest of each word individually, or choose a package to access all words of more than 6 letters." expect this to be a particularly devastating response, given how much of the HuffPo's content is appropriated and re-used by the NY Times.
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Extend this to the MPAA/RIAA (Score:1)
Most websites should have a similar feature that blocks out anyone working or associated with the music industry (except artists maybe, since they're victims of the publishers). After all, blog entries are not free to make either.
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Unfortunately, this paywall has no affect on the content of huffingtonpost.com, as they don't use words of more than 6 letters.
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Maybe not, but they probably know the difference between 'effect' and 'affect'.
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That is exactly why I only play a blog writer on TV.
Pfft. (Score:2, Funny)
That's why I read Fox News. They only use a handful of words over 6 letters, and those few are used so often it's easy to figure them out.
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Friendly Reminder: Google, Nintendo and Oscar Mayer (hey, they sell bacon afterall) are the three for-profit corporations a Slashdotter is permitted to like.
TFTFY
What about Valve (http://www.valvesoftware.com)?
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The creators of one of the strictest DRM system? You've got to be kidding.
I would have modded you troll, but since I have no mod points I reply instead.
I buy a lot of games, and Steam is by far the smoothest DRM system I've seen apart from no DRM at all.
Oh shoot, just noticed that I'm replying to AC, who cares...
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Well It was promised that if valve ever went under they would patch their games to play without steam. Also steam does more then just act as DRM.
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Fox News bashing. We haven't seen that on Slashdot before, now have we? How quaint.
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Wow.. That must be why the majority of American's like to watch Fox news and all the self proclaimed intellects have such a problem with it.
Fair and Balanced, my ass.. They are outright discriminating against letters in the alphabet when arranged in certain patters to convey a specific meaning. The government should do something about Fox News doing this.. It's a slippery slope here.. First they came for my grown up words, and I said nothing, then they came for my friends who use them, and I said nothing. N
Micro Edit the punctuation (Score:1)
The "Now {, ; ! €}" thing is really witty for once.
NYT had it coming (Score:2)
FTFA: "And, of course, stories that aggregate falsehoods to support an administration's efforts to take the country into a disastrous, decade-long war based on lies will always remain free."
Zing!
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Zing indeed. I haven't seen any major source deride the war in Libya until now.
New Layout? (Score:3)
Meh. I liked the pink OMGPONIES better.
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OMG Ponies! is the classic April fools day prank that all others aspire to. So over-the-top and hilarious.
What is this? (Score:5, Funny)
I wouldn** imagin* that any other compan** would ever try this terrib*** idea.
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S*mpr*n*?
Please stop! (Score:4, Insightful)
Isn't the idea of April fools to ... fool people? This is just sad.
Re:Please stop! (Score:5, Insightful)
It could be that the /. editors have misunderstood and they think the purpose is to be a fool...something they try to excel at every year.
Re:Please stop! (Score:4, Insightful)
A long time ago Slashdot posted a funny fake story on April Fools and it was pretty good and fooled some people.
Since then, it's been an attempt to go more over the time every year and after about the second year it was beyond annoying.
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Isn't the idea of April fools to ... fool people? This is just sad.
Joke's on you?
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Everybody knows that the AFJs are coming, so actually fooling people isn't very effective. Besides, when you've got a hundred thousand people coming to the web site, somebody's going to shout April Fool pretty fast.
So they tell jokes. You know they're jokes. Some of them are pretty funny. The best ones usually have a point. Huffington is joking about the New York Times paywall. ThinkGeek is joking about how annoying 3D movies can be.
I consider that a far higher standard than the "Hey, I just got a cal
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All the slashdot jokes are as obvious as "hey your mum is dead". Partly because they're totally implausible, and partly because EVERY SINGLE STORY is an April fool.
What they *should* do, is post real news stories, and have ONE PLAUSIBLE April fool. For example "Oracle renames itself as Sun" or "Digg bought by Google", or "Duke Nukem Forever cancelled."
Oh, When . . (Score:1)
. . . will this day of April fools be over?
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Midnight, you incompetent fool.
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Yeah, but midnight which time zone? GMT? EDT ? PDT ? Or do we have to wait for Hawaii
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Generally, it ends on April second.
Unfortunately, the memo usually goes out on the night of march 31st so people don't get it until April 1st when they return and think it's another April's Fools Day trick to stop them from tricking people.
Slashdot is going bankrupt (Score:1)
It's true. Slashdot's parent is filing for bankruptcy. In their filing you'll see that Slashdot is the cause for the entire company's problems.
The CEO is quoted, "We bought VA and didn't realized that there was this White Elephant attached to it, Slashdot. IT makes no money and their guy in charge, Taco something or another, is constantly using private jets and getting super models pregnant. Do you know how much it costs to pay-off a super model?!"
Taco is quoted as saying, "I was thinking of my brother when
HuffPo (Score:2)
How about a Wheel of Fortune variant? (Score:1)
ha (Score:3)
"given how much of the HuffPo's content is appropriated and re-used by the NY Times."
that explains why the quality of the NY Times has been declining.
Um, This is Backwards (Score:1)
given how much of the HuffPo's content is appropriated and re-used by the NY Times.
HuffPo is nothing more than a firehose of vomit that they plagiarize and pump from the rest of the internet.
So, a freeloading blog site whines... (Score:5, Insightful)
About a paywall that prevents them from being a free-loading blog site?
Huffington Post, yet another vacuus shell that produces no value, delivers no real content, and can't survive as a pay business. How much did AOL pay again?
-rt
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The Troll is strong with this one...
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But I've got baaaaaaaadges...
bleh (Score:1)