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Why bother? People need to make money for their work somehow. If they kill their own business with a paywall, why stop them?


Yeah, but I like to read articles on different sites but almost all of them have paywalls and their subscription cost is very high and I personally can't afford it. Ofcourse those who have money go buy and support them and avoid the hassle of copying each link then pasting, waiting and getting on to other site to read. But for people like me who can't afford this is the way. It's just letting people know that hey you can read this article without paying money from this website.


If you are affiliated with a university, you should have a way to read articles through there, or some service (LexisNexis, Factiva,...).


you like to read the articles, thats fine...but why do u want to publicise it? isnt it in your interest to keep it hush?


I just wanted to share it with other people like me, I am sure I am not the only one who cannot afford it and wants to read. It just tells where they can read, its not actually doing illegal by forcefully removing paywalls.




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