>>Is now going or has gone subscription only.
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>>www.thetimes.co.uk now takes you to a registration page.
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>>I wonder how many of the other papers will follow suit.
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>None in their right mind I would have thought.
>For starters, when was the last time you had to sign a six page agreement before buying a newspaper ?

I wouldn't but it will be interesting to see if murdoch is big enough to change the market. In the longer term maybe it will work esp with more people being able to read it while travelling on their phones etc. A downloaded iphone app could include a prepaid subscription element with renewals coming off you phone bill. Exactly the sort of thing people don't cancel due to inertia.