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I'd like to access the pages I saw even after my subscription expires
There are several reasons why we can't do this. First, with your subscription you do not only pay for the information you see, but also for the bandwidth costs that your visits cause. If you could access the same page forever after your subscription is over, you would generate costs for the site that it cannot get back from you anymore. For sites that have many visitors or lots of big graphics, this can make a huge difference.
Second, there is no guarantee that a page you see will be here forever. This is true even on the subscription-free internet we all use. So there is no way to guarantee your access for old pages anyway. They could be gone at any moment. Therefore, if you absolutely need to preserve the information on a page, we suggest you do the same thing that you would already do on the subscription-free internet: Save it to your disk, or print it out. There are no printing or saving restrictions by using Ipaya.
Third, a technical reason: We give you access to certain URLs. There are many URLs that change daily. If we would give you free access to all the URLs you visited in the past, you could also access a lot of new information that the site owners worked hard to create - for free. Which is a something these site owners wouldn't like.
Do you use DRM (Digital rights management)?
No, we don't. Digital rights management in the popular sense means that you can't copy data freely, and you cannot print it out. Ipaya doesn't use DRM. We also ask the page publishers to use web standards. All information can be accessed with a simple browser and there are no restrictions. You can do everything you can do with normal websites, including printing, copy / pasting and saving pages to disk. Of course copyrights still apply - please respect them: Don't copy copyrighted works to message boards or the like.
Pages I have visited don't immediately appear on my "accessed pages" list.
This is normal because we synchronize our database with the sites only every 12 hours. Wait a bit, and they will appear.
Can I distribute my money manually?
No, you can't. We try to keep things simple. Of course, you can pay any site you visit any amount you like by contacting it and sending it a check :-)
Are transmissions between Ipaya and me encrypted?
Currently, transmissions between you and PayPal (where you enter your credit card details) are encrypted. Transmissions between you and Ipaya aren't, but we plan to introduce this feature in the future.
What is your motivation for all this?
Although the WWW grew massively in the last years, in many subject areas valuable information can not be found on the internet. The information is still packaged in books and other media - that's of course because with these media, the author can be paid. This is a pity because the internet would be so much better in transporting information than physical media are: Information can be transported faster, can always be kept up-to-date and can be enriched with programs and multimedia.
There is no sign for a change, although a lot of time has passed - so we believe this will never happen if authors can't be paid. Several ideas have been discussed to pay them, but none were adopted by big audiences. It's our true belief that our way of payment can be adopted more easily and can finally bring a lot of missing valuable information to the internet.
How do you print your pages - they are pretty wide
Browsers normally have no problem with pages as wide as ours because they scale all content for print. If your browser doesn't do this, just open "Page Setup" and change the orientation from portrait to landscape, and everything should print out fine.
How do I pronounce Ipaya?
Pronounce it any way you like :-) However, if you don't want to confuse people, we suggest to pronounce it "I Pay Ya".
Why do you have an exclamation point in your logo? Are you mimicking Yahoo?
Not at all. Exclamation points in company logos were not invented by Yahoo!, they actually have been around well before: Design house Joop! already did it in 1987, for example. We decided to use it to express freshness and positivity. By the way, it's only our logo that bears the exclamation point, our company name and everything else goes without it.
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