I think flat rates encourage consolidation, while micropayments encourage competition.

Sounded interesting but it looks like they’ve disallowed Australians from signing up.

That terrible. We really need access to things like this too with the News Corp/Murdoch stranglehold on he media(seriously, almost every paper looks something like this come election: http://www.jonstribling.com/wp-content/uploads/20140131-2042...)

I think Google might be working on something. When I visited an Australian Fairfax newspaper yesterday (WA Today), I got a prompt inviting me to 'subscribe' to the newspaper via Google Contributor, which I was able to do. They're charging 1c per page view for an ad-free experience.

I think I only got the prompt because they detected I was using an ad-blocker though. I'm not sure it's open to everyone yet.

geolocalisation is censure. It should never be accepted as a good practice.

Indeed, it’d be nice if there was a way to spoof your location without connecting to an offshore VPN (or a DNS proxy in some cases) but we just don’t seem to be there yet.