The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, owned by Lee Enterprises, has decided to implement a paywall for its on-line publication, stltoday.com. A paywall is designed to charge readers for the privilege or reading the publication's editorial content.
Apparently the managers and IT Staff at the paper didn't give too much thought to setting up the paywall. It took less than a day for a former Saint Louis area resident to find a hole in the paywall that circumvents the entire process. Mike Flynn has published his findings on circumventing the Post's attempt to charge for its content.
Perhaps instead of paying the CEO a $700,000 bonus Lee Enterprises should spend some money on its core business operations.
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