From: Winston Tabb <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:02:41 +0000

And add as a footnote to #3: the "fix" may not be legal under
copyrights laws in much of the world.

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> On Jun 28, 2015, at 8:06 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:49:54 -0700
>
> This is a fascinating and beautiful resopnse to my question.  I will
> work through the solution at this point sort of "on principle":
> because it *can* be done.  Thank you!
>
> But let me generalize a little further.  Imagine you were a library
> with a resource from a vendor that came with (a) data in standard
> formats, (b) crippleware, and (c) a non-standard user interface.
> You've "bought" it for "perpetual access", but you know it won't last
> long left to its own devices.  So your choices are (a) don't buy it,
> (b) buy it, live with its limitations, and let it die after a finite
> number of years, or (c) invest staff and systems time in rescuing it.
> In this case, that third option is not terribly expensive, but it has
> a cost.  The saving grace here is that the data are in sufficiently
> standard formats that the rescue is fairly simple.
>
> Now multiply this kind of problem by the number of different breeds
> and brands of digital resources we deal with.  What we now have that
> we'll have in 20 years is a function in too many cases of what we'll
> be willing to put into making it work.
>
> Jim O'Donnell
> ASU
>
>
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 6:18 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> From: Brian Harrington <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:47:10 -0400
>> Subject: Re: Complete New Yorker
>> Yes, indeed.  Our friends at boing boing were on the case not long after it was released.  I haven't gotten around to moving it to my new(ish) machine, but I liked running it from the hard drive just for the convenience factor of not having to deal with swapping DVDs.
>>
>> Here's the URL: http://boingboing.net/2006/01/11/howto-disable-the-cr.html
>>
>> And, for your convenience, here's the Wayback Machine link for the detailed HOWTO from "Gustaf":
>>
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20110817144038/http://gustaf.symbiandiaries.com/weblog/books/CNY-on-hard-drive.html
>>
>> I hope this helps,
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> Brian Harrington
>> (not speaking for) LYRASIS
>>
>>
>> LIBLICENSE wrote:
>>
>>> From: "Jim O'Donnell"<[log in to unmask]>
>>> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:33:36 -0700
>>>
>>> The New Yorker published a "complete New Yorker" product in 2005 on 8
>>> DVDs, supported it for a couple of years, then abandoned it and the
>>> people who purchased it.  I have the DVDs and just got them working,
>>> with some difficulty, on a Windows 7 machine, but I'm curious whether
>>> anyone remembering this product knows of any successful attempt to
>>> capture the data and make it available more accessibly.  The desktop
>>> support wizard who helped me install it (took some doing) says the
>>> data seem all to be on the disks unencrypted in standard formats, so
>>> in principle you could do something.  Has anyone done so?
>>>
>>> This is a case study in "perpetual access":  what does it mean in
>>> practice to "own" a digital resource that you've "purchased" from a
>>> vendor?
>>>
>>> Jim O'Donnell
>>> ASU