Why are you so dead-set agains a datasheet/specification repository, rather than looking for a way to have one? There are others, and, in fact, most of them charge money to provide copies of old datasheets, yet aren't sued for making them available, even at a profit. Many of the threads I've watched over the years have gone astray simply because people didn't look at the datasheet, and, of those, I'm quite certain a number went off the rails simply because the proper datasheet wasn't in the proper hands, resulting in unwarranted assumptions or outright guesses.

I know there are lots of folks who don't read datasheets, but, as in the case I mentioned, the specifications, once freely accessible by anyone wanting them, now have been taken down from the manufacturers' websites. They sell the devices, but they won't provide complete functional spec's unless one pays a very substantial fee, one much larger than the cost of, say 2k pieces of their mid-range product. I could see someone suing the manufacturer for selling them a product for which the manufacturer is unwilling to provide the very specification that an end-user might require in order to make effective of that product.

If datasheets and other spec's are freely available from multiple sources, why on earth would you assume that keeping an old, previously web-published SD specification on a website where others can download it would produce a legal entanglement? That's how I got my copy of the old v1.9 Sandisk spec. Why haven't the dozen or so websites that now have it been sued?

RE