CEOs Want Their Offices Back

Re:CEOs Want Their Offices Back by avemg on Monday May 22, 2017 @10:45AM (#14393974)

It's one thing to find a loophole in their paywall to view their content on their site. It seems to me that it's quite another to scrape their content and serve it up somewhere else in its entirety.

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Re:CEOs Want Their Offices Back by metaphorm on Monday May 22, 2017 @01:05PM (#14395206)

I don't see how a loophole is substantively different than this approach.

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Re:CEOs Want Their Offices Back by frgtpsswrdlame on Monday May 22, 2017 @10:46AM (#14393993)

Outline is just the new readability. I'm not sure they're even aware that they're serving paywalled content. To me, the end user, the effect is the same. They're both just loopholes.

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Re:CEOs Want Their Offices Back by Antrikshy on Monday May 22, 2017 @11:57AM (#14394593)

My question is: How are they even doing it? WSJ doesn't even vend the entire article from the server if the user is not inside their paywall.

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