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Captain Brittles
December 14, 2009, 8:53pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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The Scotsman and the Times (of London) have charged for access to their online archives for years so the Express aren't being mean at all. They have to pay for the digitising and have to recover that.
Its a boon to historical researchers.
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JadeFalcon
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Is there anything in the Daily Express worth reading for £5.95.  Wikipedia would probably be more believable than some of the stuff published there.  
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Captain Brittles
December 15, 2009, 10:21pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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Their archive would be interesting, no bare breasts but hey!
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Apollo
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It would appear that Murdoch, owner of News International, is not free of some bias in the plans I mentioned earlier, and is selective in who he does, and does not allow free access to his empire:

Times Online blocks news aggregator | Media | guardian.co.uk
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News International is blocking the news aggregator NewsNow.co.uk from linking to Times Online content.

News International has told the aggregator that it may no longer link to any content on Times Online, and imposed a technical block by altering its robots.txt, the file through which a website can ask search engines not to index its pages.

"News International has for some time been indicating to us that it would like us to refrain from linking to their content," said Struan Bartlett, managing director and chairman of NewsNow, who is sponsoring a campaign called right2link

"We have been trying to solicit from them their reason for wanting us to stop, but not other search engines. They haven't given us a reason that we understand..."

There is still some time to go before the promised News International paywall is put in place, to block any access to their content without crossing their palms with silver, however it interesting to look at the comments that follow, as they pose the question of News International charging for anyone that wants to link to their content, but happy to browse the web itself and use other people's sites for leads, but will no doubt regard such information as "free", and not offer them a penny for the help they provide.
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