Business news: Five things to watch March 28

4. Meet the pay wall

Business Wire/File
The New York Times Magazine cover from March 6, 2011, is part of a new redesign. But even bigger from a business perspective is the March 28 debut of new monthly restrictions on how many articles nonsubscribers can view online.

Little more than a week after the announcement, the New York Times (NYT) website pay wall activates Monday, limiting nonsubscribers to only 20 free articles a month. Much skepticism remains, however, with apparent loopholes galore. The Times launched its pay wall in Canada on March 17 and, already, enterprising web savants have designed programs to circumvent the code. Will the hotly anticipated attempt at monetizing the online content of the NYT be DOA?

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