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January 12th 16, 08:22 PM
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New York Public Library massive online scam
On 1/12/2016 11:07 AM, RichA wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 11:02:51 UTC-5, RichA wrote: They offered up 180,000 "public domain" images for people to do with them what they want. However, the images are very LOW RES. If you want a decent scan, it'll cost you, hugely. This is NOT how they promoted it. What a racket. http://publicdomain.nypl.org/pd-visualization/ Ah, scratch that. Turns out, some of the documents are very low res, some are higher. However, the TIF files still cost $100-$500/ea. You sound like a left winger who expects all kinds of services for free. -- PeterN 
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January 12th 16, 09:05 PM
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New York Public Library massive online scam
On Jan 12, 2016, PeterN wrote
(in article ): On 1/12/2016 11:07 AM, RichA wrote: On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 11:02:51 UTC-5, RichA wrote: They offered up 180,000 "public domain" images for people to do with them what they want. However, the images are very LOW RES. If you want a decent scan, it'll cost you, hugely. This is NOT how they promoted it. What a racket. http://publicdomain.nypl.org/pd-visualization/ Ah, scratch that. Turns out, some of the documents are very low res, some are higher. However, the TIF files still cost $100-$500/ea. You sound like a left winger who expects all kinds of services for free. More like a certain freeloader from the Netherlands who shows up in the various Newsgroups. -- Regards, Savageduck
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January 13th 16, 04:40 PM
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New York Public Library massive online scam
On 1/13/2016 10:58 AM, RichA wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 15:23:40 UTC-5, peterN wrote: On 1/12/2016 11:07 AM, RichA wrote: On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 11:02:51 UTC-5, RichA wrote: They offered up 180,000 "public domain" images for people to do with them what they want. However, the images are very LOW RES. If you want a decent scan, it'll cost you, hugely. This is NOT how they promoted it. What a racket. http://publicdomain.nypl.org/pd-visualization/ Ah, scratch that. Turns out, some of the documents are very low res, some are higher. However, the TIF files still cost $100-$500/ea. You sound like a left winger who expects all kinds of services for free. -- PeterN No, but it was promoted as a free offering, at least by Dpreview. I should have assumed that the images would only be suitable for web use I guess. So. I get a lot of things "free.: That doesn't stop me from giving them a contribution, if I think it is important to do so. -- PeterN
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