Friday, September 30, 2005

Ya Gotta Love the Web

I ran a rather restrained protest last week about the New York Times decision to attempt to charge for their editorial content. Today, while talking to our programmer for the PRISM site, he mentioned that there was a site that was posting links to NYT material that got out via syndication and bootleg postings.

JohnTabin.com now has a page, Never Pay Retail, that carries links to the syndicated versions of the now pay-for-view editorial columns. While it takes a bit of work, you can currently access a good bit of the content the Times took behind the veil of their corporate greed (and stupidity). While I could tell you how silly their actions are, here's a short excerpt from the Never Pay Retail FAQ:

Doesn't the Times have a right to charge for its columns?

 

Of course. They even have a right to charge more than you'd pay for a year's worth of digital access to most opinion magazines. And they have a right to relinquish the next generation of potential Times addicts to other newspapers. The right to run your business into the ground is inalienable.

 

I created Never Pay Retail to mock the Times's cluelessness, not to correct for it.

Even if you're not a regular New York Times reader going through feature withdrawal as you boycott their site (You didn't actually pay their inflated price, did you?), JohnTabin.com is an entertaining read.

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