The people that were paying that money to buy the paper version of the newspaper, for example.<p>There are people that might find enough value in the journalism of the Boston Globe to want to spend that kind of money on it, compared to the &quot;entire internet&quot; that can be, broadly, not the most reliable source of information (wether the Boston Globe  is a good newspaper I have no idea, but it might be for some people).<p>That is a completely different discussion than looking at the deceptive tactics they use to make people that don&#x27;t want to pay that amount to actually subscribe.