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Mygazines will go down in a flame of lawsuits

Started by Duncan Riley · 11 months ago

Mygazines, billed as the world’s largest digital magazine site launched late July but suprisingly got very little coverage in the tech blogosphere (Mashable aside pre-launch). The site scans and publishes print magazines, and encourages users to do so as well without permission%2 ... Continue reading »

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  • LaunchingToday.com

    11 months ago

    Wow, this is just a horrible, horrible idea. What were they thinking? Of course they are going to get shut down once they get big enough to be noticed.
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  • grum

    11 months ago

    shhhhhh.

    I love the site as I did RedLasso.

    The less people know about it, the longer it'll stay online :)
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  • curiouslypersistent

    11 months ago

    I also think Mygazines will fail - as I mention here. In the days where a lot of content is available online on the publisher's website, I fail to see the benefit of having to scan pdfs - in terms of both uploading and reading.

    And I take exception to "This is an entire business based on other people’s content". While I appreciate the context is different, isn't this what Google and Blinkx do?
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