[backhoe]

Sites should allow deep linking just on the premise that any hit on their pages is better than nothing. I refuse to go into any site that requires registration to view a story, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that.

Same here.

For whatever it's worth, I've maintained that once you could digitize content, and shoot it out over a wire, copyright was effectively dead.

[Sgt_Schultze]

I agree with your resistance to registering. But if the portal only requires demographic info to access, nothing requires honesty when providing such info. I regularly report my sex - F, my birth year - 1902, and my zip code - 90210. Needless to say, none is correct.