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