[veltro]

As long as there will be people ready (all too often) to spend insensate amounts of money just to own "the original print or negative", no scan will do any harm to them. To be interested in images does not always mean to want the "exclusive property of them" and looking for "workable" sizes (not thumbnails) means often to be able to study them in detail looking for that detail (a serial number, for instance) that sometimes is only barely visible in a corner.

Research is made of details and knowledge, not of money or collections. As long as there will be people capable of knowing the difference and not thinking that the world is only a "shop", I'll be fine.