25 Jan
2009
25 Jan
'09
10:28 a.m.
cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
Subject: RE: someone selling bitsavers cd's on
ebay?
On the one hand you can argue: they are just offering
a service for people who can't download large
volumes of
documents. On the other hand, all of us are skating
on some
thin ice by scanning copyrighted material in the hopes
that
nobody really cares. It seems like a bad precedent
for
someone to be selling them for profit.
Subject: RE: someone selling bitsavers cd's on ebay?
The way I see it, the worst possible example of what might
happened has already happened: someone bought, via an E-bay
auction, the rights to all Heathkit manuals and then threatened
legal action against every single archive of scanned Heath material
on the web, causing them all to shut down.
I'm not saying that anything illegal happened, just that the
end result is a damned shame.
I have a lot of Heath stuff, and while I happened to have the
original 40 or 50 year old manuals with much of it, most of the original
manuals are in pretty sad physical shape today. I would use the
scans on the web in preference to the physical manual because I was
afraid more of the pages would fall out or even worse, the fold-out
schematics would disintegrate more.
Tim.