Frompay +wall, by analogy withfirewall.
paywall (pluralpaywalls)
- (informal, computing) A feature of awebsite,application orservice that only allowsaccess to certain content or functions upon payment.
2009 May 29, ScuttleMonkey, “Newspaper Execs Hold Secret Meeting To Discuss Paywalls”, inSlashdot[1]:Techdirt got wind of a secret meeting by newspaper execs, complete with antitrust lawyers, to discuss how to proceed on the issue of implementingpaywalls going forward.
2012, Dennis F. Herrick,Media Management in the Age of Giants: Business Dynamics of Journalism. Second Edition., UNM Press,→ISBN, page332:Scores of other newspapers started selling digital subscriptions in 2011, either with apaywall on their sites or by charging for mobile access with an e-reader app.[…] Time magazine also set up apaywall in 2011, its second attempt in two years,[…]
2015, Brian Gorman,Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP,→ISBN, page140:As for the larger general-interest dailies, Long Island's Newsday was the first to erect itspaywall, in October 2009. It allowed full access for subscribers to the print edition of the paper or the parent company Cablevision, or for people willing to pay $5 per week.
a feature of a website that only allows access to paying subscribers
paywall (third-person singular simple presentpaywalls,present participlepaywalling,simple past and past participlepaywalled)
- (informal, computing, transitive) To restrict access to (a website or other resource) by means of a paywall.
