Comments on: Scribd… Publisher of all things stolen… http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2010/10/30/scribd-publisher-of-all-things-stolen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scribd-publisher-of-all-things-stolen Oracle related rants (and lots of off-topic stuff)... Wed, 22 May 2013 20:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Tim... http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2010/10/30/scribd-publisher-of-all-things-stolen/comment-page-1/#comment-141301 Tim... Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:07:17 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1661#comment-141301 Hi.

There is a link on the page footer called “Copyright”. Scroll down the page and look in the charcoal color footer area. I was going to say, “You can’t miss it”, but obviously you can. :)

Cheers

Tim…

]]> By: jim http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2010/10/30/scribd-publisher-of-all-things-stolen/comment-page-1/#comment-141300 jim Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:44:13 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1661#comment-141300 Thanks for the article, however i cannot find the copyright link. Somebody has up loaded some of my company docs and i need them removed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

]]> By: Julian R http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2010/10/30/scribd-publisher-of-all-things-stolen/comment-page-1/#comment-131478 Julian R Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:37:10 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1661#comment-131478 Scribd doesn’t appear to be free any more. They charge a subscription to download from the “scribd community” unless you upload a document in exchange for the one you have downloaded. I just uploaded a document containing the single word “the” in order to download something, saving me the $5 subscription fee (that’s the fee for 1 day). However on closer inspection of the downloaded document it turns out to be copyrighted to someone who isn’t scribd. In other words: scribd appears to make its money by selling other people’s intellectual property. I wonder if it pays royalties to the rightful owners? Hmmm… Presumably their defence is that they will take the stuff down if asked. However (willful) ignorance isn’t normally a valid defence in a case of handling stolen goods afaik.

]]> By: joel garry http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2010/10/30/scribd-publisher-of-all-things-stolen/comment-page-1/#comment-130553 joel garry Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:59:02 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1661#comment-130553 Well, if you look at the about page on scribd, you see it is pronounced skribbed. Perhaps it should be “cribbed.”

So they say it is the world’s biggest book club.

Perusing their homepage, I see something called “Lavender.” I did not know Snoopy was gay. I’ve suspected some of the other Peanuts characters. I learned something new today. That I should not have dressed up as Snoopy when I worked at the toy store.

]]> By: Tim... http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2010/10/30/scribd-publisher-of-all-things-stolen/comment-page-1/#comment-130423 Tim... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 04:29:58 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1661#comment-130423 Hi.

Gary: There’s a big dirrerence. I choose to let Google index my content. I can also choose to stop it.

Also, how many people use the google cache in preference to the real site? Not many.

If I choose to upload my content to scribd that is my choice. Nobody else has that right.

I can understand wanting an offline/permanent copy of content, and that is fine. What you have on your hard drive is your concern. Republishing it is very much my concern, and illegal without my permission.

What scribed users are doing is absolutely and positively illegal. Buzzwords like cloud do not make it less illegal.

Rant over. :)

Cheers

Tim…

]]> By: Gary http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2010/10/30/scribd-publisher-of-all-things-stolen/comment-page-1/#comment-130394 Gary Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:00:20 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1661#comment-130394 I went through a phase where I’d try to save useful blog posts. Mark Rittman has his blog disaster in 2006 with most material recovered by other people’s copies. Most of Dizwell’s material is gone permanently.

I still keep copies of most of the PDFs that are available. And I have an offline copy of the Oracle documentation too (as it did go through a time where availability wasn’t 100%).

So I’ve got a USB drive with my collection of “useful material”. The difficulty with local copies was/is search. Scridb seems to have that covered.

Then its ‘baby steps’ to storing that in a ‘cloud’ rather than locally. If the content is free, then is scribd much different from Google cache or the Internet archive.

]]> By: Ben Prusinski http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2010/10/30/scribd-publisher-of-all-things-stolen/comment-page-1/#comment-130385 Ben Prusinski Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:30:19 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1661#comment-130385 Yeah it seems like there are many sites that post stolen books, videos, presentations, etc.

]]> By: Amardeep Sidhu http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2010/10/30/scribd-publisher-of-all-things-stolen/comment-page-1/#comment-130353 Amardeep Sidhu Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:00:36 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1661#comment-130353 You are way too famous in all this ;)

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