Last but not least: Hack your newspaper
What has long been popular in blogging circles as an intelligent activity, namely fiddling around with how to get hold of protected newspaper content without having to pay for it, has found a wider circle of imitators.
Bargains are always well received and especially popular among the Swiss is also everything that is free. Particularly interesting in recent times are the newspaper archives that do not provide users with their information free of charge. What has long been popular in relevant blogger circles as an intelligent activity, namely fiddling around with how one could get hold of protected newspaper content without having to pay for it, has now found a larger circle of imitators. The reason: The blog of the commuter newspaper Heute recently posted the success story of the hack of the Weltwoche and Tagi archives, and already the blogs were full of such publications. Everyone wanted to be the first, even if it meant: Byebye free e-paper.Because the newspapers were fine with it. Holes that are known can be plugged more quickly. Weltwoche, Tages-Anzeiger, Facts, Sonntagszeitung, Netzwoche and NZZ were pleased with the publications. The commuter paper Heute, which wants to act emphatically cool, has made a game out of e-paper hacking. Anyone who tries to hack the e-paper issue of Heute, which is free anyway, and copies the link of the last issue into the address field of the browser and sets the date (e.g. 20102006_ZH) to the current day (23102006_ZH) in the file name receives the friendly message: "Dear bloggers. From 15.30 you may download our newspaper as often as you like ;-)". And 3:30 p.m. is, after all, half an hour ahead of the masses.
