Gwern Branwen wrote: > 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'. > > Yup, there is a reason the wjhon...@aol.com mails still have a killfile chez moi. Managing to miss the point that if a link appears broken to anyone in the world it might simply get removed seems a fundamental error. It wasn't about whether I'm deprived of the info, but what form of citation is good to have on Wikipedia for this patchy service.
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