Why do people submit slideshare and scribd links? Do they not respect the people they're trying to share the articles with enough to find a copy that we can kee

Why do people submit slideshare and scribd links? Do they not respect the people they're trying to share the articles with enough to find a copy that we can keep and share after the original has bitrotted? Do they think we all caved and pay to extortionist middlemen to download copies of files whose informational content is free, but in degraded and degrading (to the reader) format? Do they upload the articles there themselves because it's simply too hard to find a couple gigabytes of cumulative bandwidth to share an article with the community directly? Maybe HN should have a PDF upload form. The venture capitalists can afford the bandwidth costs. The link you want is page 8 of this pdf: http://accu.org/var/uploads/journals/CVu213.pdf http://accu.org/var/uploads/journals/CVu213.pdf (md5 5afbca5e575e66f4b9c071c5a6af579b, also saved in the web archive) While I'm angry, fuck Google.