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newspapers can't sell ads on a remote court document site which leads to a great business idea, run a mirror that republishes legal / government documents in a

• johndhi 3y ago
  I like that idea. A homepage that lists the top 20 stories of the day that are about a document that probably isn't actually linked to. Go to our site (www.readtheactualdocument.com) to see it -- and get served ads. Additive would be some highlighting and annotating of the document (as nytimes sometimes does) to point people to salient points.
  • nivertech 3y ago
    Scribd already does that, but with subscription/one-time payments instead of ads. I guess it's only works with leaked or hard to find documents. But why would a media website upload docs to your site, when they can serve it from their own?
  • zzzeek 3y ago
    if I get a commemorative lucite block with "Leader in Innovation" someday, I'll know it came from your startup as they went public, good luck!
  • carlosjobim 3y ago
    100% of readers will not read the source document.
• wildrhythms 3y ago
  My favorite are the news articles with links to other articles, that link back to the original, thus cyclically references itself as a source.