Oh my God, I haven’t thought of the jargon file in a decade at least. Thank you for the reminder.

You’re too late. My brothers have escaped you.

Fair point. I don’t mean to suggest that authors don’t deserve to be paid for their work. And while the article discusses Google and Amazon’s attempts to manipulate online behavior to drive up their profits, I remember a time when paywalls were a rare exception rather than the rule while reading articles online.