Question Can;t access some stories.

But it IS one of the reasons we don't mirror every story at BCTS or elsewhere... and why we ask readers not to make their personal copies accessible by the public. Because if something doesn't get taken down, it is an exercise in the author/group's rights to withhold the IP from public access. If it is available elsewhere, in a fashion that we cannot take down; then that isn't respecting their ownership. And it could cause legal problems.

Say, for example, a movie studio/producer came to us and said.... "Lots of potential, we want to do an adaptation of the story. But, some of the things in the early story need to be adjusted to avoid legal problems. Those need to be taken offline until they're fixed. As soon as you take care of that, we'll get contracts sent out to your authors, etc." And so we take a bunch of stories offline to fix them. Readers say "don't worry, you can get those stories from my site". We say "no no, don't do that"... and various people thinking they're being helpful cost us a movie deal.

Now... is that really likely? No, probably not. But if it did, you would't want to be the one responsible for bringing it crashing down, would you? I know *I* would hate to be that person.

That actually wouldn't do any good Nagrij. You can easily set a computer's clock back a number of years into the past, save a file, and then restore your clock. The time/date stamp on the files depends on the current time on the computer it was saved on... that's less obvious on network controlled clocks for mobile devices, but it should still be true for most desktops.

Valentine wrote: And I've done something similar to get out of date to work.

mmHmm. That's one of those 'old' computer nerd tricks. From the days when 'shareware' programs had easy to bypass lockouts related to trial periods.