# Telling people how to get around newspaper paywalls

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**Created:** [August 30, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telling-people-how-to-get-around-newspaper-paywalls/820518 "2018-08-30T12:14:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telling-people-how-to-get-around-newspaper-paywalls/820518/21 "2018-08-31T01:46:48Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> I don’t want to get into nit-picking arguments of whether or not it’s technically illegal, nor how easy it is, nor how much it’s common knowledge. Let’s just say that as a site owned by a newspaper chain, we are particularly sensitive to issues of copyright and of payment for content. As such, that’s not a discussion we want to allow.

That’s all totally cool (and **Bone** went further than I thought we could in speaking about The Method Which Must Not Be Named, so that’s cool too). I was just surprised by your flat description of TMWMNBN a way to “break the law,” is all, and my curiosity is satisfied on that regard. I 100% get the reluctance of a media-owned board to allow people to describe that method.

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