[ih] Internet analyses (Was Re: IPv8...)

[John R. Levine]

> with regard to NYT paywalls: until very recently you could plug the URL
> into archive.ph and it was already there.
>
> Now WSJ and NYT are wise to that dodge. As far as I know.

The NYT usually has an intro offer of $1/wk for six months, extendible 
indefinitely by telling them you want to unsubscribe when the deal is 
over.  If you think it's worth reading, I think it's worth paying a 
little.

R's,
John

PS: Less sure about the WSJ


>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 2:17 PM Greg Skinner via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 28, 2026, at 1:24 PM, John R. Levine via Internet-history <
>> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Being an expert witness, though: THAT pays good bucks. At the Apple v.
>>>> Samsung trial, one witness testified that he got $850 an hour, and he
>> put
>>>> in 900 hours on the case.
>>>
>>> I suspect many if not most of the people on this list have gotten on the
>> patent expert witness gravy train.  I've been in probably a dozen cases on
>> the defense side against patents that were garbage, and one on the
>> plaintiff side against Microsoft for a patent that was pretty good.
>>>
>>> I should definitely increase my rate, though.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Levine, johnl at taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
>> Dummies",
>>> Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail.
>> https://jl.ly
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>> Reminds me of a statement made by Geoff Goodfellow about the changing
>> nature of Silicon Valley tech businesses with regards to patents.  The full
>> article is behind a NYT wall, but some of it is available (at the time I am
>> writing) in Geoff Goodfellow Explained <
>> https://everything.explained.today/Geoff_Goodfellow/#google_vignette>.