> Sometimes, you can also go to a local university, open up your laptop in a cafeteria (or library), search for any open wireless network, and bypass those paywalls completely.
I think it's important to realise that, if you are opposed (as mahmud (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1591586) is, for example) to paying for this content, that you are not bypassing the paywalls, but, rather, taking advantage of the university's having already paid its way through them.
(To be clear, I think that it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do; just that it's important to realise that nothing is being ‘bypassed’ per se. I also think you're very lucky to be near a university with an open network—all that I know now require authentication.)
I think it's important to realise that, if you are opposed (as mahmud (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1591586) is, for example) to paying for this content, that you are not bypassing the paywalls, but, rather, taking advantage of the university's having already paid its way through them.
(To be clear, I think that it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do; just that it's important to realise that nothing is being ‘bypassed’ per se. I also think you're very lucky to be near a university with an open network—all that I know now require authentication.)