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> I do the work I find it hard to believe that you believe that scanning a work (even if rare) that they own the rights to means that you deserve a cut of futu
by IvyMike 11y ago
> I do the work
I find it hard to believe that you believe that scanning a work (even if rare) that they own the rights to means that you deserve a cut of future profits. You could argue that $50 may not be enough money, but a fixed rate fee seems pretty reasonable for doing what amounts to manual labor.
- teddyh 11y agoExcept that mikestew in no way asked for “a cut in the future profits”. He offered to make the results available for free for everyone.
- IvyMike 11y agoI'd argue when he used the phrase "digital sharecropper", he did imply that. There's no official definition of "digital sharecropper", but Atwood's is as good as any: "Digital sharecroppers typically get nothing in return for the content they've provided, and often give up all rights to what they've created." https://blog.codinghorror.com/are-you-a-digital-sharecropper/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/are-you-a-digital-sharecropper...
- mikestew 11y agoteddyh got it right, and wowser, did you infer a lot from my pithy little comment. I mean, read what you quoted: "give up all rights to what they've created", including throwing it up on the pirate bay. Either free for all, or free for none, because i do charity work for actual charities, not multi-billion dollar for-profit corporations.
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- IvyMike 11y ago> charity work $50 for your labor, no?
- dragontamer 11y agoA magnet link is a BitTorrent link. He wants to "do the work" and then share it on Bittorrent.
- x0x0 11y agodon't forget they suggest you cut the spine off, destroying the book, for that $50...
- IvyMike 11y agoYeah, that's insane. I think I may have some of the books in question, although in storage halfway across the country. But there's no way I'm going to destroy them, and I have to think that the kind of person who hoards these things (including me) is NOT the kind of person who would then turn around and dismantle them.