Personally, I think the silliest part of their new plan is the horribly complicated system to keep track of the number of stories you read. Like, you only get five links from Google, 20 from over here, unlimited from over there, etc. Apparently they don't realize that if it's that complicated it's not going to work! Either people will find a way around it to read however much they want, or (more likely) they just won't bother with your content and go somewhere else.