Re:DPReview’s Founder Blasts Amazon’s CEO: ‘What a Waste’
by perardi on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:39PM
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Probably because the potential market of enthusiasts is quite small, and not enough to even cover the legal fees for disentangling whatever knot of copyright and legal issues that Amazon presumably spun out over the years.
Re:DPReview’s Founder Blasts Amazon’s CEO: ‘What a Waste’
by yuuuuyu on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:54PM
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Possible. But I'd have expected that at least a conversation take place. Involving the founder. Instead of having him lrarn about the decision publicly when it's too late.
Re:DPReview’s Founder Blasts Amazon’s CEO: ‘What a Waste’
by t-writescode on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:57PM
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The cost to Amazon is greater than the money they'd get out of it / the pennies they'd receive for the site aren't worth the paperwork.
Yes, 50MM would be pennies to them.
Re:DPReview’s Founder Blasts Amazon’s CEO: ‘What a Waste’
by xur17 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:18PM
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> Stating the obvious that I don't see in this thread yet: If there really is an active community around it that wants to keep this alive, why don't those people get active, cut some deal with Amazon and then run the show on their own?
As other commenters have noted, its likely not worth the effort to Amazon to transition it regardless of how much money someone might pay.
That said, I would happily take over ownership and hosting of the site. At a bare minimum, as a static snapshot of the site, and best case (assuming the infrastructure they have setup is manageable), as the full site. Email is in my profile if anyone at Amazon is listening.
As the discussions here have shown, server space+traffic costs are expected to be low and could easily work with donations. Then you need some technically inclined people to put in the maintenance work in their free time, but that's the same as with basically every online non-profit community made by and for enthusiasts.
If that's not happening then clearly interest is just not big enough and shutting down the logical consequence. Web archive is still around (and we all should take a moment and consider a donation, whether you care abouy DPReviews or not.)