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(...) I'd love to make a set of CD's for myself, but I've always felt bad about the thought of turning something like wget loose on big sites. (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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don't feel bad, people run wget (or similar) all the time (resulting a 2-5GB daily download rate). However, for half the download time, you might want to do wget -A zip since everything is zipped (including the thumbnails and indexes) KL (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Hrmmm... will do then. I think I have a few gigs free on vader right now - might as well put them to use. Then I can extract the zips and make my own CD's. (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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I'm not sure you would get in trouble if you quitly sold a CD set for cost of media plus time. This is a standard practice for share/free-ware (I do realize that this isn't freeware... my $.02 SteveB (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Yeah, and that's also something that shareware and freeware authors specifically allow people to do - redistribute and charge for the media and possibly for the service. The key is they want people to distribute their programs. TLG seems to be (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) You're right. While distributing scans on cd might seem to be the same as on the web, it really isn't. In the real world, distributing bits as atoms is alot different than distributing bits as electrons or photons. Especially when you don't (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I agree with your intepretation as well. I just fear their interpretation may change if someone were to create an atomic distrobution using your photonic distrobution. (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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