Posted by momentmaker 2 days ago
I just wonder if it can survive - is there a business model here? If not, it's just a tech demo and then it doesn't have value as the hosted version, it would have it if the whole processing/indexing pipeline was open sourced so that anyone can host it themselves and pay for their own infrastructure.
the "business value" (aka legal extortion) is obviously to extract rent from information that was previously free (as in free speech), and that is not licensed.
I don't understand your comprehension problems.
However, I wouldn't categorically deny positive external effects. These are exotic, because or politics and economy are based on negative external effects, violence and corrruption.
However, there are positive "externalities" (a different word for the woo of pseudo-scientifical "economic theories, that is easy to overlook).
But in the end, the plausible results are simple. "Value" comes from
- natural resources - extortion, if there is no sufficient legal boundary - marginal improvements in improving extortion and extraction efficiency
See, I saved you an MBA there.
You can make your point but you can’t and shouldn’t talk to people like this here. Especially when it’s clearly so unwarranted.
And 1932! https://www.movingimagearchive.com/sources/san-francisco-by-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599206
At least they don't slap their logo on public domain material, like Periscope Films does.
[1] https://www.movingimagearchive.com/sources/general-aviation-...
The other point might be to provide better search capabilities than IA, also taking load off. Sometimes verifying something actually is Public Domain on IA can be work in itself, putting more work on a primary resource. In short it seems to me these people are doing a good thing.