Tinasky TRP? (was Dharma)

[Matthew P Wiener]

To: "'Pynchon-L'" <pynchon-l at waste.org>

Harrison Sherwood writes:

>This reminds me of a question I'd been meaning to ask: Has anyone (Mr.
>Ware?) gone to the insanely boring yet ultimately enormously rewarding
>task of scanning and OCR'ing the Works?  [...]

I think Jorn has done this with GR, and has a hypertext version of it.

>Or would this be a violation of copyright so heinous as to bring to a
>sudden heat-death human civilization and all that it stands for?

Your own copy would be permitted.  Sharing it with thousands of your
closest friends would not be.

What would probably be legitimate is having a site that permits you
to run various searches on otherwise unreadable text, returning the
page numbers in various editions, with or without brief extracts.  I
expect software that does this--and even allows the user to submit his
own code, instead of just relying on pretty primitive canned searches
--to be commonplace in a year or two.  Naturally, there would be some
sort of text returned restriction filter.
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba at sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)