[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can anyone on rhizome let me know when they started restricting access to members only and charging a membership fee. I'd not looked at their sight for a long time and wanted to check the artbase and don't understand why it's no longer freely publicly available.
Sol - Yes it is a real pain - they started this about a month or a month and a half ago.
It seems to be motivated less from restricting access (although that is what they have
done) then form a concern that they were going to potentially fold for lack of funding.
Owen
There was a lot of controversy when this happened in January. Many thought they should have cut costs, rather than charge people for access. I can sympathise with the problems of trying to keep an organisation afloat, but I don't think this was the right approach. Check out the discussion during January on thingist - an archive is at http://bbs.thing.net (which is still free, despite becoming a victim of corporate censorship)
Chris
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