On Sat, 14 May 2005 11:04:02 UTC, "No One You Know"
wrote:

One way to stop these thieves is to have the BAMA site print on every
page in bold letters "THIS MANUAL IS FROM THE BAMA MANUAL ARCHIVE" or
some other wording. This placed on the front cover and table of
contents might at least slow down the stupid thieves.

Any other legal ideas?


well, you have it backwards. Ignoring the issue of who owns the
copyright to manuals that are no longer available from the vendor
(sounds like they abandoned the copyright to me), the problem isn't
that some guy who is short on cash is downloading and selling copies
of the manuals, the problem is that no one has unloaded the entire
site to CD and isn't selling the "Hallicrafters 1959-1969", "The
Collins compendium" or "all tube SSB transmitters 1960 - 1979" or
whatever fills 500 meg of CD. Ten Bucks shipping included.

Some guy is selling Heathkit schematics on CD. I bought a disk and
the first week, needed a piece of info from it.

The first person who sells full 500 meg CDs at a low price puts
everyone else out of business AND solves the bandwidth problem on
BAMA.

I would pay 10 or so bucks for a FULL CD figuring that one manual on
it might be useful to me someday.

de ah6gi/4 Heathstuff (and some Collins 75S-1's, oh and an SX-100
too.