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