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by bgwalter 289 days ago
Of course they are entitled. They have the copyright, so you cannot reproduce it anywhere by default and the "fair" use issue is not settled.

Valuable content is endangered because writers feel demotivated it their material is just stolen by overfunded big corporations.

Paywalls only work for known publications and not for someone who writes the perfect tutorial on how to solve boot issues in Debian. Why would anyone write that if it's just stolen and monetized without attribution?