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Unpopular opinion I’m sure, but I have donated to a few projects in the past (and did not get result on several of those donation) and absolutely understand the cost and work involved. But I would argue that many of those ‘‘preservation’’ scans are not preserving anything. There’s many projects that I have seen too late to contribute, and now they are being kept in secret hoard of the few peoples who managed to donate in time and were given the express instruction of never sharing it ever. Once the money has been recouped for the peoples doing the scan and the work, I really see no point in keeping it exclusive to the contributor. I’ve seen people starting on project to scan X or Y film that they know have already been scanned in the past and ‘‘preserved’’ because there was no way for anyone to get access to them, so whats the point?. Sometime, it feel more like people financing something that the scanner want to have for himself, more than preservation work.