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Like any other comment, I will ask the same. How did you get 1 million manuals? Show HN is for small projects usually. Can you tell us or tell us a range you pa
by system2 5y ago
Like any other comment, I will ask the same. How did you get 1 million manuals? Show HN is for small projects usually. Can you tell us or tell us a range you paid for the 1 million manuals?
- tyingq 5y agoI would guess scraping other sites and trying to do a credible job of cleaning up mis-labeled files, fixing meta-data, sorting them in a reasonable taxonomy, etc. There's a lot of terrible sites like this that either have bad data, bad navigation/taxonomy, overladen with ads, or try to force their viewer versus allowing a pdf download, etc. This site, after a quick once-over, seems pretty nice on all those counts.
- system2 5y agoWell however he did, I do not see his responses after posting it here. Is it even legal to scrape all these manuals from other sites?
- tyingq 5y agoIt wouldn't be the most famous site full of copyrighted material.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoIt should be illegal to withhold a repair manual from a owner of the device. We already have a situation where in theory you can make a backup copy of any movie your bought, but in practice DRM prevents you from doing so. Thats when DRM is not installed as spyware. They are riding rough over us, abusing laws invented in previous millennium to protect poetry and novels. We need to fight for our rights.
- atat7024 5y agoAsking this is inevitable, but in wildly poor taste.
- bitgur 5y agoHi We have been collecting this library for a long time. Regarding legality, we hide the documents of those manufacturers who do not want to publish them. But there are very few of them.
- johnwheeler 5y agoWhat makes you think they paid at all? You can Google all these manuals you know. They show up on many other sites and I doubt manufacturers care.