I’m all for the preservation of history (in fact, compulsively so), but without some exclusiveness to our ad scans, they would be worthless to us to provide as entertainment. Until then, just enjoy them for the moment as temporary entertainment — or better yet, scan them yourself and you can have them in any format you want. Perhaps someday I will release all my scans in a watermark-free archive for you to download and save forever (then eventually make a site about based on my scanning work), as I know you must be itching to do. Jason, thanks for asking (albeit a bit tersely). We begin with my simple post on the aforementioned weblog entry: All postings are real, all rescued from my own save-offs of the conversations. So, at the risk of making myself seem over the top on a minor issue (which I personally don’t consider minor), I present to you the online debate of Jason Scott and Redwolf over the issue of watermarking. You also won’t see the back-channel e-mail that resulted, until now. You won’t see my comments there because they were ultimately deleted. The entry I posted a comment on was this one. As it turns out, into proper perspective isn’t where things went. This weblog only started late last year, so I figured I’d have a chance to, you know, nudge things into proper perspective. Such it was when a relatively new weblog,, run by 24 year old “RedWolf”, started posting some enjoyable scans of various ads and magazines up… but smarred with watermarks. Sometimes this merely bothers me, and sometimes it really irritates me. I find it both harmful to the original item (which is now vandalized) and rather base of the people doing it, since they’re basically using someone else’s work to further their own (financial, material, social) ends. I especially don’t like watermarking when the party watermarking doesn’t actually have any ownership rights over the watermarked item, whether it be scans or films or any online properly. As mentioned in the previous ASCII entry, I don’t like watermarking. I often post little jibes or comments across weblogs throughout the world, either saying something trifling or dumb or maybe attempting to make a point. But hold tight through our little online battle, because you benefit from it. The glory of online life is how easy it is to have two parties, who from any distance would appear to be the same person or type of person, learn how much they really don’t get along. The Passion of the Scanner - March 11, 2006
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