2009/1/16 WJhonson@aol.com:
We have always had the problem of how to access pd documents that might be sitting in some repository like for example the US Federal Census.
Until ancestry and genealogy, starting scanning them in, you had to *go* to a Federal Archives (or similar repository) and sit *there* and view them during their hours and under their control.
Now that net sites have begun uploading those documents so we can conviently view them, you want to steal them.
Ah no. I want Americans to exercise the legal ability they have to use certain material in certain ways. If that cases companies issues then under the principles of capitalism that isn't my problem unless I own shares in them.
That's not very nice.
1)Copyright law isn't nice 2)Compared to most of the other bits the relevant area isn't very nasty.