On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/9/5 <wjhon...@aol.com>: >> Charles a few things. >> >> You do not need to be in the US to read a Google Book. There is a thing >> called proxy or super proxy or something of that sort, which will mask where >> you are, and thus allow anyone to read a book as if they were in the US. > > That is probably illegal, though.
Or at least a violation of the Terms of Service. I dislike such advice that takes the form of 'oh, that's not a problem, just <do technically involved thing> to bypass an issue'. Yes, and we could defeat any DRM just by randomly guessing the encryption key or hand-soldering a chip we fabbed ourselves to fool the protocols; does that mean we shouldn't worry about things like DRM because there's always some way to work around it? Or heck, we could just disable editing entirely - that way anyone wanting to edit will have to exploit a buffer overflow or remote server hole before they can modify the SQL tables; this will guarantee that only those people who really want to edit will edit, and isn't that a good thing? Clearly the Foundation's expenditures on user-friendliness are a waste. Technical possibility is not real possibility. The differences between these humorous examples are ones only of degree, not kind. -- gwern _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
