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