I disagree. Some information is worth paying for. If it was voted up, others agreed. You are always free to avoid it. How will we get high quality investigative content if none of us wants to pay for it?
NYTimes has selective access to a lot of the front page stories, visiting nytimes.com not logged in won't normally allow you to advance past the little blurbs to see full articles (connection, location, time of day, visitor amount dependent). You'll notice however Google searching the article title and then choosing the first result will take you to the full article.<p>Could anyone else shed some light on this?
Far more annoying, to me, is comments on articles complaining that they're behind a paywall (especially when it's actually a registration wall). So, while I understand that it may be frustrating to some people, please don't post comments complaining that an article is behind a paywall.