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3 ResponsesRemove the Irish Times Paywall!
I don’t like the way The Irish Times is being short sighted and maintaining a paywall. In keeping with their recent redesign and expansion, they should now do the obvious next step and remove their subscription only areas of ireland.com. I’ve heard grumblings and rumours for ages on the possibility of the paywall being dropped, make it a reality! - The huge leap in readership would lead to increases in ad revenue, or at least, that’s the theory. The New York Times did it. The Wall Street Journal is probably going to make their paywall even more expensive, but that’s just Rupert Murdoch being insane. The information wants to be free. Tear down the paywall, dig into the online ad revenue. Let’s go!
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[...] G’wan over and do it and make sure that you give the right answer to the question “what’s the one thing you would change about the website”. It wouldn’t be hard for them to even take the first step and drop the paywall for a time and see if Jazz Biscuit’s theory is correct. [...]
[...] into the Irish Times. Unfortunately the stories are behind the paywall on the Times’ site and Jazz Biscuit requires that any mention [...]
[...] is out - The Irish Times is going free from tomorrow (crumbling to the might of the Jazz Biscuit Paywall campaign?) Eoin and Damien posted about it yesterday with some reactions in the [...]