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[โ€“] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So what's the point of this?

[โ€“] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Other sites, eg with books and journals, are doing the same thing. They hope that they can extract more money by reducing the availability of their content.