A blow was struck for publishers this week when the News/Media Alliance brought down the paywall bypass website 12ft.io (aka “12ft Ladder”). According to the Alliance, the 12ft Ladder site offered ...

Have you ever encountered a situation where you wanted to read an article or access a website, but it was behind a paywall? Paywalls are barriers that require you to pay or subscribe to access certain ...

Many news outlets and websites have gone behind paywalls. It makes it hard for readers to access and read an article without a subscription. Almost every major news organization follows the model. To ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 12ft Ladder was allegedly taken offline for violating its web hosting provider's terms of ...

Paywalls are essential to the financial sustainability of news organizations, yet little is known about how readers respond ...