Gwern Branwen wrote:
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/5 WJhonson@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 WJhonson@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.
Charles