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