'NYT' Working Out the Kinks In Its Paywall System

Since the New York Times paywall was announced last week, both the newspaper and readers have been digging into the minutiae of what counts towards your subscription and what you get for free. Today and tomorrow, Paul Smurl, VP of paid products for NYTimes.com, will be answering reader questions to hopefully give some clarity.

And, of course, there are those who are looking for ways around, under, and over the wall. AllTwitter reports on the NYT‘s request that a Twitter feed created to access all manner of content at no charge, @FreeNYTimes, be removed.

And TechCrunch digs into the Times’ seeming about-face on limits tied to search engines, which had originally identified only Google searches and now includes all major search engines.

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