from the moving-into-the-21st-century dept.
El Reg reports
Rupert Murdoch's flagship British tabloid, The Sun, is to abandon its paywall in search of greater web traffic as it seeks to compete with big online news hitters such as the Daily Mail.
[...] News UK's chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, said in a company-wide email: "I recently shared with you the future priorities for the company and am excited today to tell you more about our plans for the first of these: growing The Sun's audience. This will mean setting The Sun predominantly free in the digital world from November 30. By happy coincidence, this is also Cyber Monday, one of the best-performing days of the year for online retail."
[...] Fans of the racy Page 3 feature will probably be disappointed to learn that Lucy from Daventry and her skimpily clad pals will be placed on an entirely separate website.[1] In the interests of accurate reporting, your correspondent visited said website and can confirm that, at the time of writing, you still have to hand over your hard-earned beer tokens to see something you can easily get with 10 seconds spent on Google image search.
[1] Content is behind scripts.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 03 2015, @12:53AM
I'm shocked. Shocked. Yeah, I look at Fox now and then, but I don't PAY for it! Funny - I can't recall ever looking at the Sun. Is that only because it was behind a paywall, or do they just not report news? What's the word - tabloid? That's probably it. I've never intentionally clicked on this site either.
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/ [nationalenquirer.com]
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @01:10AM
Valve should pre-release their games as open beta for the Linux platform before they launch the title on Windows.
Linux users are good at testing, writing detailed bug reports, with step-by-step instructions how to reproduce bugs, attach screenshots, etc and are familiar with bug management and bug tracking systems such as Bugzilla, Launchpad and GitHub. Many have familiarity with debuggers too.
-uid313
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @01:14AM
and they're also good at bitching when developers don't volunteer their time and expertise making software for the masses
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday November 03 2015, @06:20AM
Many years ago I used to pick it up and the newsstands and quickly (before the attendant could say, "Hey! If you want to read it, pay for it.") I'd flip to page 3 for a look at British boobs.
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain
(Score: 3, Touché) by rigrig on Tuesday November 03 2015, @08:40AM
Apparently people don't pay to read it, or they wouldn't abandon their paywall.
No one remembers the singer.
(Score: 3, Informative) by hendrikboom on Tuesday November 03 2015, @01:15AM
I just followed the link, and page 3 seems no longer to be paywalled. Is that just me? Or is it maybe region-specific?
(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday November 03 2015, @05:41AM
Parts were, parts weren't from here. The mentioned lady was paywalled, some others weren't.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @01:44AM
For some reason, neither The Register nor SoylentNews provided the name of the site. After trying sun.co.uk and sun.com I looked it up: it's thesun.co.uk.
By the by, I notice that sun.news is available.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @12:47PM
Even better, soylent.news is available, and so is lentnews.soy.
(Score: 2) by tathra on Tuesday November 03 2015, @07:10PM
soylent.news is a pretty great address for this site, much better than the current one. we should look into taking it and having soylentnews.org redirect there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @05:24PM
That's to protect the innocent. ;-)