Good for them?

Is this move is out of greed or economic survival?

Newspapers (printed and digital) as well as traditional print media are dying from the lack of interest in buying ads. The newspaper media have grown used to a two stream revenue approach; revenue from subscribers and advertisers.

One solution, the paywall, has has very limited success.

Adapt or die -- Newsweek will cease both its digital and print versions it was sold to the Daily Beast a while back. If you look at the Daily Beast's brief synopsis of a news item then a link to a more in depth story you will see their strategy.

There won't be news tubes aggregating stolen news stories as their will be few stories to be found and stolen... Meantime, life will go on with the source of the daily news in the control of a not so wide and varied point of view. Is Big Brother's Newspeak lurking just around the corner?

Now, if some ISP had more that a piggish shit-for-brains attitude they would provide some of these news services to their subscribers as an incentive to use that ISP -- they won't -- it would be too socially useful and in the long run beneficial to their own business.