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I repeatedly don't post links to PDFs here on Hacker News because I know that despite clear copyright notices they will be uploaded to scribd, resulting in a le

I repeatedly don't post links to PDFs here on Hacker News because I know that despite clear copyright notices they will be uploaded to scribd, resulting in a lengthy and time-consuming clog-dance to get it taken down. Some of them might be interesting, but I'm not going to get involved in that. It would be interesting to put several links here, get them sucked up to scribd, issue the takedown notices, and then see if scribd really does honor its "Three Strokes" policy and ban HN from uploading. But life's too short. I won't be posting PDF links here.

jacquesm 17y ago
Scribd does honour takedown notices (I recall cperciva's comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=960179 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=960179, even if it did apparently take some time to get it done). A bigger problem is that they will take resubmissions of content that they've already taken down in the past. That's pretty cheap of them, they could easily avoid that extra work for the authors.
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