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This site sucks. It requires an account or Facebook login to access the PDF. I refuse to do this.

Dissecting it with web developer tools, apparently they parse the PDF content server-side and rewrite it as HTML. So you can't just view source and find the link to the PDF file, or intercept the download with a proxy -- you really do have to log in to get the PDF from them, AFAICT.

Can anyone provide a direct link?

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There's a link right under the blue FB login [Sign up without Facebook] that should allow you to download the pdf, that's worth a try.

I object in principle to giving them an email address, Facebook login or establishing any sort of account. I just want to anonymously download the PDF over HTTP. Because this doesn't seem to be possible, I'm probably going to stop clicking on links to them altogether.

here you go :) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2877271/Bitcoin-Foundati...

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