There'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

There'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...