eBay users plagiarizing collectors' content...

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Joe Barrera" <joe at barrera.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:15 AM


> SUPRDAVE at aol.com wrote:
>
>>  I had that happen to me. I was just looking at stuff, and noticed
>>  some familiar sounding text related to a computer for sale, a PS/2 I
>>  think. I asked the seller a question and told him I knew what he did
>>  and that I demand the text either removed or attributed to me. He
>>  complied and said he would not do it anymore. Never had any other
>>  issue beyond that.
>
> I think these sellers find stuff on the web (yours), and view it as
> authoritative text that somehow created itself, and never think
> about the personal effort involved in researching and writing it.
> If you've ever tried to teach students the importance of
> attribution, you'll know how difficult it is to get people to
> understand that their sources are not pure knowledge crystallized
> from the heavens, but rather someone's concrete effort.
> I know I'm not phrasing this well, but I'm trying to say it's
> ignorance, not malice, that leads to not acknowledging sources.
> And that's probably why education, in the form of telling each
> infringer why they need to credit their sources, works more
> than you'd think. Most people get it, once it's been explained
> to them.
>
> - Joe


Manuals that I have scanned are being sold on CD's.  At first it bothered me
but after that I want my PDF's distributed and this is just another way.

Randy
www.s100-manuals.com