Re: the final report on a 5-year-long bet
michael said:
You've got to learn to cut and paste the proof in, or at least provide search phrases. . . .
search my original message for "youtube" and you'll find this:
leading to a sale to rupert murdoch for a cool $800 million... not the $1.6 billion pulled down by youtube, but still amazing.
it was also included right there in your reply... *** michael said:
Please don't confuse MY answers with THEIRS. . . .
i don't. but the problem is that it is the internet archive who has been doing all the scanning, except for google. most p.g. e-books come from internet archive these days. if they stop scanning because they think they've done it all, the public-domain is going to be unnecessarily truncated... but maybe i've misunderstood what brewster is saying:
http://internetarchive.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/books-in-browsers-keynote-sp... -bowerbird
"if they stop scanning because they think they've done it all, the public-domain is going to be unnecessarily truncated..." Wherever anyone chooses to stop because it's getting too hard, there will always be those who think they should go farther... Obviously things will slow down after the world hits 50%. . .! Why? The easiest 50% of books will already be done. . . . It will only get harder to find the other 50%, even though the tools for doing it will be more powerful. All this new power may keep the curve going up to 55%, even to 65%, but it will have to slow down when public domain is hard, harder, hardest to find or to identify.
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