[picardythird]

All good points for reforming the business, but none justify stealing the content, in my view. Voting with the wallet is about abstaining, not stealing.

For better or for worse, subscriptions are king in 2022, and I don’t see a meta-subscription for news being a good thing for journalism itself. Personally, I prefer something closer to the iTunes model, but that’s dead. I’m growing entirely sick of singular platforms that hold all the cards of entirely industries (and they don’t pay any better than the publishers do).