Die, Scribd. Die.

Re:Die, Scribd. Die. by kaos on Friday June 20, 2008 @05:53PM (#223256)

then you would be reinventing scribd, it saves a copy of the original pdf and you CAN download it.

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Re:Die, Scribd. Die. by mcculley on Friday June 20, 2008 @06:15PM (#223273)

Am I missing something obvious on scribd? I saw no way to download the original PDF on the scribd page. I was as annoyed as the original poster when this paper (HPL-2007-193) was on HN and I tried to save it so that I could read it later. I ended up doing Print->Save As PDF from scribd. When someone later posted a link to the original PDF, it was much nicer looking, smaller in size (4MB versus 164KB), and had the original metadata (e.g. authors, description).

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Re:Die, Scribd. Die. by evgen on Friday June 20, 2008 @07:23PM (#223322)

The "site" I was describing was HN, so I guess my sarcasm was a bit too subtle. Additionally, you can only get a copy of the original PDF if you register. I can understand why they went with this sort of bait-and-switch tactic, but it is slimy.

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