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> Why are bulk downloads prevented when S3 Requestor-Pays buckets could deliver public domain content at $0.12/GiB? Because a) they need ammo against people li
by duaneb 14y ago
> Why are bulk downloads prevented when S3 Requestor-Pays buckets could deliver public domain content at $0.12/GiB?
Because a) they need ammo against people like, well, Aaron Swartz, and b) doesn't take many people bulk downloading the DDOS the sucker.
> Why does a one-time salvage operation require a watermark - are they asserting a copyright?
They probably don't distinguish between public domain and copyrighted in document production. TBH I doubt that most documents people access are public domain, so it probably hasn't been an issue until now. Even in fields that are really old (e.g. classics) the vast majority of work is recent and copyrighted.
Besides, if I were to scan these things in, I would want people to know I did it. Do you know how much effort goes into the process? Even when things are completely automated (which is expensive) there's a lot of manual labor in operating the machine, editing, and cleaning stuff up. What do you do with figures? How about typeset math? Glyphs not in unicode?
Not saying I agree with their tactics, but I understand them and I don't think it makes them an immoral/bad organization.
- bjustin 14y ago> Do you know how much effort goes into the process? Even when things are completely automated (which is expensive) there's a lot of manual labor in operating the machine, editing, and cleaning stuff up. What do you do with figures? How about typeset math? Glyphs not in unicode? Step 1: Ask Google to do it. Step 2: There is no step two. Google Books shows that Google is willing to do these kinds of tasks, as long as they can show the results on their site and thus keep people using Google services. I'm sure they would digitize all of the public domain papers and host them at no cost to JSTOR.