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"If it was meant to be downloaded..." That's the problem. The original author/publisher DID mean to have the PDF downloadable, and people posting to HN DID mea
by aristus 18y ago
"If it was meant to be downloaded..."
That's the problem. The original author/publisher DID mean to have the PDF downloadable, and people posting to HN DID mean to link to that PDF.
HN/Scribd throw themselves into the middle of that. They redirect you to their online version, and ask you to register before you can download. It's annoying and not what people want.
Scribd is pretty nice, I like it. But the autolinking at HN is a bum idea.
- jcl 18y agoThere's also the issue that people submitting the link to HN rarely own the copyright to the content, but HN will silently ask Scribd to make a copy anyway and serve it to the internet at large. Needless to say, there are authors who dislike that approach: http://notes-from-a-sticky-wicket.blogspot.com/2007/12/scribd-or-cribd.html http://notes-from-a-sticky-wicket.blogspot.com/2007/12/scrib...