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While I can for sure appreciate the Scribd service, charging for 24 hour access to "archives" is just silly. It reminds me of Rapidshare, which isn't exactly a brand to live up to.

On the other hand. So does the website that posted the article and requires a login to read the follow-up.

I like that someone called Scribed out and they fixed the situation.



What exactly do you like about Scribd? Every experience I had with is has been negative. Their reader sucks and to download a pdf you have to register. When somebody posts a link to Scribd I always end up searching for another place on the internet that has it. I don't see any value Scribd provides.


I never said I "liked" the scribd service, only that I could appreciate what they are doing, not necessarily the monetization.


Except that they didn't really fix anything, because almost no one knows Scribd distributes their content and hence hardly anyone will enable that setting.


The charges only applied to downloading the documents, not viewing them in their HTML5 or FlashPaper viewer.




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