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Im not normally one for rigid copyright enforcement, but cut-and-pasting an entire article for no other purpose of bypassing a copyright restriction? I too regularly hit the "not in your region" block but there are more legal ways around such things.





"more legal" ? Nothing but consuming the site as-they-publish-it, including letting all of their malware have its way with you including forcing you to suck down region-appropriate verification cans, is legal from the view of the copyright maximalists.

The main legal difference between pasting the text here and sites such as archive.?? is that the latter creates centralized targets for legal destruction xor capital intermediation depending on whether such sites achieve "success". Either way once they get popular enough, we lose.

The sheer majority of the web would be better off if entire pages/sites were shared by value instead of by reference. The main problem with pasting whole articles here is that it makes a big wall of text. But still, I applaud it.




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