On: The Mueller Report Can’t Be Copyrighted, Is Flagge...

[josteink]

I don’t understand why people use something like scribbd to host a PDF a few megs in size and then complain about takedowns.

Host yourself. The operational and BW cost for hosting static content is ridiculously low.

[lostmyoldone → josteink]

I believe that the particular report was 139MB of scanned printouts of a redacted PDF. Depending on your site hosting, I imagine it could actually become somewhat expensive if it turns out to be popular.

[colejohnson66 → lostmyoldone]

This. 10,000 downloads would already be a terabyte of bandwidth

[AnthonyMouse → colejohnson66]

Which is <$100 even using something with overpriced bandwidth like EC2.

And there is always BitTorrent if you don't even want to pay that.