Back in college, as Dale can attest, I had spent a lot of time getting passwords to unlock sites that, ahem, have private content. A lot of times, though, you're looking for a way to open up a newspaper site.
Here's a site that gives you a login/password to all many such sites. Note the Firefox extension that's available also. If you haven't switched to Firefox, you're behind the technological curve, as the MPAA undoubtedly is (if you look at my previous post).