Another free resources goes pay

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This is quite interesting-until this week MS Encarta's nineMSN site was
free-now you have to pay just to access it. Sad, isn't it-one of the well
known PC enycyclopeadia site goes payware.
 
A.A. Fussy said:
This is quite interesting-until this week MS Encarta's nineMSN site
was free-now you have to pay just to access it. Sad, isn't it-one of
the well known PC enycyclopeadia site goes payware.
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Yahoo sports radio is going that way for the upcoming college football
season. Lots of unhappy college football fans out there.
 
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:20:45 GMT, A.A. Fussy wrote
This is quite interesting-until this week MS Encarta's nineMSN
site was free-now you have to pay just to access it. Sad, isn't
it-one of the well known PC enycyclopeadia site goes payware.
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In another group I follow, it was noted that the new edition of the
Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary is to be restricted to paid-for
access -- although the existing (and thus outdated) one will remain
available free.

Definitely a pattern appearing.
 
Yahoo sports radio is going that way for the upcoming college football
season. Lots of unhappy college football fans out there.
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Ditto the NFL. Streaming game broadcasts, which used to be free
through NFL.com, are available this year only by subscription through
Real Networks.
 
The Weather Channel is also offering a paid service. For about $15 a year,
you can get the same information as on the free webpage except minus ads.
There a few extras but hardly worth the money imho.

Terry
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I got the impression that radar video wasn't available in
the freeware version, which is what I am most interested in.
So I didn't DL the free setup. I could also picture getting
a butt load of spyware to deliver the ads, but maybe not.

BoB
 
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