what BS

[Jules Richardson]

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.