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Scribd should index and host these. I doubt that would greatly add to their current huge scale. They could make a dedicated site for it. They could also probabl
by ivankirigin 15y ago
Scribd should index and host these. I doubt that would greatly add to their current huge scale. They could make a dedicated site for it. They could also probably get the help of the FOSS community to help make the search faster.
- 18pfsmt 15y agoEDIT: I should delete this because it is wrong, but I won't so as not to confuse the reply. Thanks, gwern. Sorry for not RTFA first, but I've adopted a habit of reading comments first. --- I believe these documents are still under copyright, so that would give them significant liability. They exist as a DMCA compliant company, so they are protected from their users' actions; but, pro-actively doing what you suggest would remove the DMCA protections.
- gwern 15y ago> The portion of the collection included in this archive, ones published prior to 1923 and therefore obviously in the public domain, total some 18,592 papers and 33 gigabytes of data. > The documents are part of the shared heritage of all mankind, and are rightfully in the public domain, but they are not available freely. Instead the articles are available at $19 each--for one month's viewing, by one person, on one computer. It's a steal. From you.
- gwern 15y agoSo, the solution to one publisher locking up and charging for access to public domain material is... copying the material to another publisher that likes locking up and charging for access?
- ivankirigin 15y agoIt is a solution to needing to download every file here just to access one quickly. Scribd has charged document creators IIRC, not readers. Scribd makes money off ads, so the incentives are actually really well aligned