Up until the controversy broke, this was the warning posted on the website/blog:
A subscription is required at North Country Gazette. We allow only one free read per visitor. We are currently gathering IPs and computer info on persistent intruders who refuse to buy subscription and are engaging in a theft of services. We have engaged an attorney who will be doing a bulk subpoena demand on each ISP involved, particularly Verizon Droids, Frontier and Road Runner, and will then pursue individual legal actions.
Oh noes! The interwebs po po!
By reading this comment you agree to pay me the sum of $1 Million USD (U.S. Dollars).
Who are these idiots? Its up to them to restrict their content to subscribers only. If they want a website you can only access once, then stop serving HTTP requests to that IP address.
Some f-cking lawyer must have dreamed this up.
Why would anyone want to read more than one article from the North Country Gazette?
It’s because they don’t have accounts. They have only a passowrd and no username. The really bad security has been breached.
It looks like they found a way to put up a pay wall without suing people. As some of the articles are now password protected. This isn’t the first time the newspaper has caused controversy. A few years back the owner of the paper June Maxam caused a controversy regarding fair use.
She also has a Encyclopedia Dramatica article dedicated to her. I’d have to agree with the Encyclopedia Dramatica article, she’s just a old troll who lives under a bridge.
I am tempted to write a bot that would go through multiple FOREIGN anonymous proxies and download their entire web site … over and over and over. Try and sue a bot bitches. What a bunch of morans.
Even if it was free, it’s not worth the electrons
to read it…
June Maxam, the owner of the NC Gazette, has an interesting ED page
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/June_Maxam
Google reader is a bot.
Ha, ha, ha. I read a North Country Gazette article, left the site for awhile and went back to take another look. I got a 403 Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access / on this server.
That will drum-up business.
Oh man, are they in for it when 4chan hears about this.
I suspect that some of the more rambunctious sorts will educate them to the virtues of being tactful.
As for as I’m concerned they can take down their web site.
simply avoid
internet has everything you need
I’ve never been there and i got the 403 error, i should sue for not getting my one time free access
False Advertising!
They’re just doing it for the lulz.
Good luck with that. I wonder how they treat their subscribers to the newspaper?
What have they got against Droids?
Is Maxam an iPhone fanatic?
According to the link from #8, this is one lone bitter woman who believes she can reprocess news articles from other sources and is above the law. And she will sue anyone else at the drop of a hat, to the point that the local court has her down as a “frequent filer”. Even the local police wish she would just go away.
Hi! We’re your local newspaper and we’re dumb as f@ck!!! Wanna read more of our articles??
These guys sound as smart as the fictional Piranha Brothers, from a Monty Python sketch.
Soon they will have their other, other -operation.
Rupert Murdoch is kicking himself for not thinking of this first.
Look for a merger with News Corp next week.