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0 pointslloydjatkinson8y ago0 comments

I wonder why people get off on writing articles and hinting at the reader about the original article or PDF and then never linking it? Are they that desperate to keep people on their site just for the ads?

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rindalir8y ago

This is somewhat odd, but in the Terms and Conditions on the original site it prohibits linking to the site from any other site or document...

shmerl8y ago

This is simply absurd.

euyyn8y ago

lol so Hacker News is out of compliance with those terms now?

gefh8y ago

I prohibit you from _not_ linking to it. It's roughly the same legal argument.

nickpsecurity8y ago

Nah, copyright law prohibits by default as I read it. Then, author selectively grants permissions.

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