1 Mar
2007
1 Mar
'07
6:05 a.m.
Lyle Bickley wrote:
The only thing you might do to curtail this kind of
"thievery"
I need to read the ebay ad to see if Al's summary matches the text; I'm not
sure that getting something for free that was available for free and then
including it as part of a sale is "thievery". A little dishonest yes, but
where's the theft?
is to "watermark" key pages of manuals on
bitsavers.
I doubt it'd help. However I'd give serious consideration to every PDF file
having a cover page giving the source (bitsavers), the scan date, and contact
info for the original scanner - similar to what the various free electronics
datasheet sites seem to do.
It provides an incentive for people not to pass things off as their own work
whilst not "harming" the actual main content of the file, and likely only adds
a couple of KB onto a multi-MB file.
Besides, most serious collectors already know and
value greatly the work
you've done to create bitsavers...
Exactly.