Comment on DMCA Notice Targeting ‘Bypass Paywalls Clean’ Isn’t The Thing to Get Angry About
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I have a simple opinion on paywall bypassers:
If it’s possible to bypass the paywall, that means there’s already a class of unauthenticated clients you’re allowing to see it. I have no interest in complying with whatever infrastructure you use to implement this discrimination.
Implementing a true hard paywall is trivial software. The only reason bypassing is possible is because they’re trying to have their cake and eat it too by allowing (eg) search engines to see it unauthenticated.