20,046 page doc archive still available

[Ashley Carder]

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> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Al Kossow
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 7:14 PM
> To: classiccmp at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: 20,046 page doc archive still available
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> Are people downloading things from bitsavers and selling them for
> a profit?
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> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=74946&item=
> 5120677046
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> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=163&item=5117657361
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=163&item=5117657564
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=163&item=5117657045
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4619&item=3
> 695381778
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> and thanks to the last four, I've had a few dozen people trying to Wget
> the whole IBM section of the archive.
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I believe that a complaint can be filed against the seller and eBay can
shut them down.  However, since some of this stuff probably still belongs
to IBM, I would not want someone to attempt to shut down bitsavers because
of this.