Re: Page Full of Natlang Reference Grammars

Hm. A new horror genre: Necrocopyright law.  "The Copyright of
Cthulhu"!  In RIAA Cthulhu fthagn!

On 10/24/06, Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:35, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> > On Oct 22, 2006, at 8:21 PM, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Kate writes:
> > >> ...
> > >> I think I may end up spending my entire weekend on this site. Thank
> > >> you for sharing!
> > >
> > > It is about 7G of data!  Will take me longer than a weekend, I think.
> > >
> > > This can't be real.  It will probably be switched off soon.
> >
> > I don't know about that. It claims that all the materials are (or at
> > least were) available freely in other places, and it appears to give
> > content owners the option of having their stuff removed.
>
> I can verify that, at least for the Old Irish pdf file.  I did a search
> today,
> and found the same file on an Irish language site, the file's name being
> slightly different, but it was exactly the same once I opened it and took a
> look.
>
> Of course, if you want to sit and shiver in terror of innumerable people
> such
> as Henry Sweet sending the lawyers around, be my guest.  Now that would be a
> horror story worth reading - the long-deceased, in response to the urgings
> of
> the RIAA and the MPAA, sent an equally deceased lawyer around to extract
> fines from the living who are downloading his books.  There were some
> serious
> problems - the judge who was to pass judgement, fled in terror when the
> deceased appeared to arraign the living, and got run over by a bus.  The
> living downloaders, hung themselves to escape the attention of the dead
> plainftiffs, and thus took a different perspective on the whole thing.  The
> lawyers for the defense, took up holy orders ... ;)
>
> Wesley Parish
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