While not every site has pay-per-view archives, there are less free archive sites compared to years past. Here, for the moment, we're free since the dawn of time.

What I'm having a hard time understanding is how "having to scroll through the whole article stifles discussion"? I find that having the whole article here, which saves time going compared to going back and forth to sites, which can be very slow on dialup, makes it easier to focus on the major points and for copying specific passages of text.