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RE: In today's news: Paywalls Are Everywhere
I haven't paid for anything, either. How could you possibly even pick one? I think the WSJ is the original paywall site. I remember a joke about it on an episode of The Office years ago. I think if you have a print subscription, it includes the digital subscription, so that's probably where many of them come from. Nothing screams "elite" more than a fresh copy of the WSJ sittin on your desk :P
I used to pay for Britannica and Questia. Questia was digitizing books and developed a reference library that was better than my local university. They were put under by Google Books. Britannica was swamped by Wikipedia.