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No, PROTO is not an effort to get all anons to sign up.
It was a response to FIVE MONTHS of spamming, both here and espec on 8. One way to combat DDOS and spamming by limiting the no. of users who can access 8 at any given time.
You think boards like this make money? Nope.
Just the opposite. 
They exist IN SPITE OF all efforts to wipe them out.