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  • Many sites don’t work like that and don’t even load the content from the server before the paywall check.

    But I have a trick that work 100% of the time. Just don’t read those sites.

    I get that journalism and entertainment magazines have workers and need to be paid BUT:

    They were getting paid when I could pay a cheap physical newspaper if I want to read it and usually had those for free anyway. As you’ll get newspapers on most public places and one single newspaper would serve a whole family. In my house we didn’t really paid more than 4€ a month and got physical things that you could just keep. Now with digital distribution you own nothing and it is far more expensive. So… No. Also they get a ton of public money through institutional advertisement, so I’m already basically paying for them without getting access to their content.

    So unless they are willing to change their model I’ll just refuse to read them. I’m happier without their clickbaits anyway.





  • I don’t think America’s people are specially worse than other countries.

    There are everything like every other place. Here in europe we have our share of stupid people. Have you ever seen people breaking each other heads every week because they have different football (I mean soccer) teams?

    We have still Kings and Queens. They may not have political power (though they actually do have it) but still live like… Well… like kings on public money just for being born with royal blood. And most people support the monarchy.













  • I agree with all those points.

    I don’t know if adding exceptional cases to de equation adds to the argument or not. But there are many instances where the ones selling the product are not the ones that made it, and the ones that made it will never see a penny of what you paid for. This is true in old games/media, where rights were bought long ago by corporations and creators see nothing. Also true in any big production made by a big corporation with many workers. The workers who actually create the IP were paid by hour, while corporations and investors get to keep milking the product after creators had been paid.

    This will invalidate any argument about creators getting compensated for their work. For those cases at least.