"Alphascript publishing"

littlechava

United States7221 Posts

February 10 2010 03:32 GMT

I just ran across one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen... a company by the name of Alphascript publishing literally just copies and pastes (even leaving web code in, with little arrows pointing to every link etc.) wikipedia pages on various topics, prints them, and sells them on amazon for upwards of 100$.
like... SERIOUSLY? THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENS?
Source: http://rufftoon.livejournal.com/59337.html?thread=2667721
List of books: http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1265772367/ref=sr_pg_1?ie=UTF8&rs=&rh=n:!1000,i:stripbooks,p_27:John McBrewster&page=1

Archaic

United States4024 Posts

February 10 2010 03:37 GMT

Haha, it was only a matter of time... I can't believe anyone would have the nerve to sell it on Amazon... at such a high price.

micronesia

United States24784 Posts

February 10 2010 03:51 GMT

At least they weren't copying pages from teamliquid!

littlechava

United States7221 Posts

February 10 2010 04:04 GMT

TL would probably be more reliable. We do have an average IQ of 350 after all.

stoned_rabbit

United States324 Posts

February 10 2010 04:07 GMT

i gotta say, despite probably being illegal. thats fucking awesome. seriously, thats basically free money lol.

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

February 10 2010 04:07 GMT

jealous you didn't think of it first? playahating gets you nowhere littlechava

littlechava

United States7221 Posts

February 10 2010 04:09 GMT

On February 10 2010 13:07 stoned_rabbit wrote:
i gotta say, despite probably being illegal. thats fucking awesome. seriously, thats basically free money lol.

It's not illegal.

On February 10 2010 13:07 zulu_nation8 wrote:
jealous you didn't think of it first? playahating gets you nowhere littlechava

Yeah, I guess I have to take responsibility for my failures. Sigh.

ShadowDrgn

United States2497 Posts

February 10 2010 04:21 GMT

Wikipedia content is subject to a creative commons attribution share-alike license, which only requires that you attribute the source to Wikipedia and don't change the license. There's no restriction on making commercial uses of Wikipedia content like this. So despite it being pretty much a scam, they aren't violating any laws.

I'm definitely jealous.

datscilly

United States529 Posts

February 10 2010 04:56 GMT

The creative commons license is non-commercial. Creative commons is three things: Attribution, Noncommercial, and Share Alike.

Mastermind

Canada7096 Posts

February 10 2010 04:57 GMT

#10

This is awesome.

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