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Re: Scribd, the “YouTube for documents,” copyright violations and all

sportsinteraction — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:28:53 -0000

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Re: Scribd, the “YouTube for documents,” copyright violations and all

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Re: Scribd, the “YouTube for documents,” copyright violations and all

DA — Sun, 06 May 2007 15:54:15 -0000

Actually the third founders name is Tikhon "Bernstam" not "Dernstan"

Re: Scribd, the “YouTube for documents,” copyright violations and all

la — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:14:54 -0000

actually, IMO, legal issues aside, this would seem to be the most practical way to distribute any printed material online... could also serve as a great discovery/preview engine for books, manuscripts, course material, etc. not to mention, the content screening process on this type of service is significantly less of a burden than that of a video/music service (you can just do a text match!) - and they can do brilliant contextual advertising w/out relying on flaky tag/name/description data. lastly, considering there's no digital amazon (or at least a mainstream one), I can think of a million opportunities for this company. ok, my fanboy piece is over. cool site :)

Re: Scribd, the “YouTube for documents,” copyright violations and all

Dave Seth — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:19:55 -0000

What a silly "startup." Fact is, people don't read as much and reading through some small flash player is just painful. They'll get sued soon. Hope they can raise enough money for their defense fund!

Re: Scribd, the “YouTube for documents,” copyright violations and all

Matt Marshall — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:52:20 -0000

Thanks Paul, corrected.

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Paul Graham — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:24:24 -0000

Could you correct the part that says they got $300k from Y Combinator? We never invest that much. We did a seed round for Scribd, and then they went on to raise $300k from angel investors.

Re: Scribd, the “YouTube for documents,” copyright violations and all

rick gregory — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:01:36 -0000

Excellent... Let's steal people's content and then say "gee, we can't control what people do."

Right. Because it was huge surprise, after Napster, Kazaa, etc and Youtube that people would upload content that they have ZERO rights to. I'm just shocked... I'd never have seen that coming. (insert rolling eyes here)

The underlying technology sounds cool - but it's lazy bordering on criminal to say that Scribd can't screen content as it's uploaded. There are several products that allow teachers to screen student papers for plagiarism. If a teacher sitting at a desk can use software to screen electronically submitted student papers, are we really to believe that a cutting edge company that's the Youtube of documents cannot so this on each and every submission it recieves?

Please...