This is simply brilliant. As it’s publicly posted on the web there doesn’t seem to be any copyright issues posting it here.
It’s one short page titled
International Association of Time Travelers: Members’ Forum Subforum: Europe – Twentieth Century – Second World War
Page 263
and well worth your time!
I have to admit, that is pretty funny.
Reading the thread title, I was also reminded of this Onion article.
Well, as long as the topic is Wikipedia, might as well toss this in.
Oh, that was beautiful.
I love that one. I even got my husband to read it, and he loved it. It’s perfect for anyone who’s been on the Internet for a while.
Oh man…awesome. This link gets sent around.
The story is a very fun little story.
I just don’t understand what that sentence is supposed to mean.
You can always post a link to anything on the net. That has nothing to do with copyright.
You certainly can’t copy something just because it’s been posted on the net. That’s usually a copyright violation. Especially when the something is a signed story on a magazine site.
You haven’t “posted it here” unless some mod removed it, and there’s no sign of that.
I’m hoping this is just an awkward bit of phrasing, and you didn’t mean what the words you wrote imply.
Oh, that was hysterical.
I did. I don’t like posting links to copyrighted material that shouldn’t be publicly on the web, as well as the actual material.
I see. I didn’t interpret your words in that way, obviously, but I heartily agree with and approve of what you’re saying now.
What makes you think this story “shouldn’t publicly be on the web” in this manner? The link is from an online journal of originally-written science fiction, so the author obviously wrote it with the intention of having it be published online. And I’m glad he did.
That is an awesome story.
Thank you for posting that.
I don’t think that, which is why I did post it here.
My mistake. When you said “I don’t like posting links to copyrighted material that shouldn’t be publicly on the web,” I thought you were saying that this was used without the author’s permission. I’m going to go back in time now to tell myself that isn’t what you thought. And then I’m going to kill Hitler.
Just to clarify why both **mobo85 ** and I thought otherwise, imagine if you posted a link to an article on cnn.com and then added that it was publicly posted so no copyright issues were involved. Virtually everyone who read that would go WTF?
Abyss and Apex is a long-standing, well-regarded professional science fiction publication on the net. Posting a link to a story there shouldn’t need any explanation. If anyone thought otherwise, all they needed to do was go up a level or two to the main page and it would be obvious the site was legitimate.
You’re putting in the qualifier seemed so weird in context that the only realistic explanation I could come up with is one you refuted. But it was still a weird thing to read. Your real rationale literally would never have occurred to me.