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justinclift ◴[] No.41884224[source]
> Anyone in the world with an internet connection can view, interact with, and download the British Museum’s 3D scan of the Rosetta Stone, for example.

Attempting that just now from the linked page: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/the-rosetta-stone-1e03509704...

Note that Sketchfab is a 3rd party crowd (not the British Museum), and trying to download that model requires signing up for a Sketchfab account.

So while it's kind of "public access", that's only while Sketchfab is still around and still requires giving this random place your details.

It's better than nothing, but not exactly fantastic for a public institution to be doing.

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sadeshmukh ◴[] No.41884244[source]
At least you can download it. They can't undownload it once you have it, and people can distribute from what they have.
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1. autoexec ◴[] No.41885114[source]
It'd be nice if they got uploaded to archive.org or somewhere else where the public can get it without handing over a bunch of data.