There is nothing "free". Someone took the time and trouble to scan the
manuals, someone pays for the webspace, etc. Since you have the Heathkit
manuals, why don't YOU scan them and send them to BAMA for posting.
You may discover that scanning hundreds or even thousands of pages
of manuals is "work". Some people are so dense as to think they should
receive some form of payment for "work". I have sold hundreds of CD's
on eBay containing about 50 military manuals, almost all of which I scanned
myself, page by page. For a lot of the manuals, I had to buy them first,
then scan, then hope to resell and recover some of my costs. Most of the
people that bought my CD's were darn glad to get them as their only
alternative
was buying an original manual and many times the price of the CD.

BTW, you will be glad to know that one of my CD buyers has put all my
files on his web page so people like you can download them "free". The only
work he did was to do a file copy operation taking a couple of minutes
at most.

good luck, 73,
Phil
W5BVB

"Nocturnal1" wrote in message
...
I don't so dearly care about copyrights. BAMA seems to be the only readily
available 'free' source of manuals available online. I am new to this
group,
so I didn't know that this subject has been rehashed a zillion times
already - sorry about that. I didn't claim that his ad said that it was
from
BAMA, but it's identical to the copy I obtained from there. So I guess
there's nothing stopping me from doing the same thing with my Heathkit
manuals - I just scan em in and sell the copies, eh? If I had my druthers,
there would be no copyright law and everything would be freely available
for
downloading...

~Tom



"Joe" wrote in message
news.com...

Take a look at this and all his other "manuals" - maybe ripped from
BAMA
ftp
site? It only takes one joker like this to wreck it for all of us. Is
this
copyright infringement?



Take a deep breath Tom. Where does his ad say it's from BAMA?
Where does his ad say he even MADE the copy? You know as well
as I know that EICO is LONG out of biz. There are MANY MANY
'companies' selling copies of old manuals - Hi Manuals and many
others. This is a stale old debate that no one but zealots care about.
Jezus - there are photocopies out there of manuals for gear that hasn't
been sold in DECADES. Get over it! And I might add that just because
BAMA doesn't charge doesn't mean they wouldn't be violating the
copyrights you seem so dearly to care about!!

Joe