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Calvin and Hobbes Giant Collection (A strip ever published)

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Re: Calvin and Hobbes Giant Collection (A strip ever published)

#5

What about the copyright dude?

Amen. What is it, Steal Stuff Day today? One new anonymous torrent client, one way to grab geolocation services by doing a cross-site scripting attack on an adserver, and now this.

If you want all the Calvin & Hobbes strips ever, they're here:

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes

$12 a year, and actually legit. (And a halfway interesting business model for many here: free access to last 7 days, $12 a year to access decades of archives from any strips.)

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Giant Collection (A strip ever published)

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post #5

What about the copyright dude?

Amen. What is it, Steal Stuff Day today? One new anonymous torrent client, one way to grab geolocation services by doing a cross-site scripting attack on an adserver, and now this. If you want all the Calvin & Hobbes strips ever, they're here: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes $12 a year, and actually legit. (And a halfway interesting business model for many here: free access to last 7 days, $12 a year to acces…

I've now seen more than one comics site use mechanisms that are completely under the control of the client (such as popover DOM elements and referrer-string checks) to control access to archives-by-date.

(Just observing, not criticizing their choice, which may be perfectly reasonable for their market.)

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Giant Collection (A strip ever published)

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post #6
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amen. What is it, Steal Stuff Day today? One new anonymous torrent client, one way to grab geolocation services by doing a cross-site scripting attack on an adserver, and now this. If you want all the Calvin & Hobbes strips ever, they're here: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes $12 a year, and actually legit. (And a halfway interesting business model for many here: free access to last 7 days, $12 a year to acces…

I've now seen more than one comics site use mechanisms that are completely under the control of the client (such as popover DOM elements and referrer-string checks) to control access to archives-by-date. (Just observing, not criticizing their choice, which may be perfectly reasonable for their market.)

how exactly is you answer related to the link ?

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Giant Collection (A strip ever published)

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've now seen more than one comics site use mechanisms that are completely under the control of the client (such as popover DOM elements and referrer-string checks) to control access to archives-by-date. (Just observing, not criticizing their choice, which may be perfectly reasonable for their market.)

how exactly is you answer related to the link ?

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Re: Calvin and Hobbes Giant Collection (A strip ever published)

#10
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've now seen more than one comics site use mechanisms that are completely under the control of the client (such as popover DOM elements and referrer-string checks) to control access to archives-by-date. (Just observing, not criticizing their choice, which may be perfectly reasonable for their market.)

how exactly is you answer related to the link ?

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