On 12/8/06, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Define "promptly," then? Because I nkow a few articles I recently finished that use materials only available in one library across the country from me. Will verification of those sources not be prompt
enough
for someone in, say, Chicago?
It doesn't need to be promptly verifiable by everyone. A TV show that can't be seen legally is not verifiable by anyone.
How does that follow? And the goalposts are moving -- just because there aren't commercially available copies doesn't make watching a copy of a show illegal, much as the recording industry would like it to be so.
See Betamax v. Universalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._v._Universal_City_Studios .
We shouldn't be
relying on illegal copies and fansite summaries for our sources.
Again, what "illegal copies"?
I wish I could think of a way to make it work - I'm very active in
WikiProject Stargate and we use episodes as sources all the time - but a source no-one can access is not verifiable.
Obviously someone is accessing the sources. You have a strange definition of "no-one".
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