[axod]

Half of the "documents" seem to be either plain text, or a plain image (porn).

The most viewed "document" on scribd of all time: http://www.scribd.com/doc/26896/SUING-FOR-TOO-MUCH-SEX

Do you think it's sane to "stream" that document? What the hell are these people thinking??? They're wrapping plain text inside flash. One can only imagine their warped mentality. Why not convert plain text to a video, upload it to youtube, and embed the video. It'd make about as much sense.

[abstractbill]

This is the modern version of people emailing each other Microsoft Word documents with photos in them. I never understood that either.

[graemep]

That is because some corporate email systems block attached image files.

[axod]

Well, I'm glad it's scribd paying the bandwidth bill to "stream" a 200 byte text file via a 200k flash player, and not me :)