> Implement a legitimate system and people will use it.

This sounds like no true Scotsman.

I guess it's tautological that nobody's tried the right model because nobody's been successful.

If you implement subscriptions + micropayments but let all the web scrapers through that’s not a sound new attempt at a system. That’s the same leaky system with micropayments slapped on top. See?

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rkomorn a day ago | parent [-]

I guess.

Ancestor comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45302115 already starts with the context of not wanting to subscribe to a random site, so I don't know how we don't end back up exactly there to have a non-leaky system with micropayments on top?

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righthand a day ago | parent [-]

But the solution to not wanting to subscribe is to pay the $0.50 or leave. Before it was: find a way around paywall or leave. The OP maybe wants free things only?

	▲	warkdarrior a day ago \| parent [-]
		When it comes to digital stuff, everything wants free things only.