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Nah - It's an Illusion

From Marginal Revolution:

65 cents per disc The complete Bach, 155 discs, the reviews I've read are quite positive on the recordings. I'm ordering my set tonight. Don't neglect the English Suite in A minor, or the Cantata "Wachtet auf, ruft uns die Stimme."
But Alec van Gelder of the International Policy Network emails that this cannot possibly be true --
155 discs of all of Bach's work, for just over $100 - wow! But if all the "consumer" groups, library associations (librarians! They're never wrong!), and commonists are right, this can't be happening as technological protection measures - or DRM - are making the public domain inaccessible (http://www.eifl.net/services/ipdocs/pcda2_oral.pdf)? They couldn't possible be wrong, misguided, and dogmatic, could they?
As the old joke says, "Well, that may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory!"

posted by James DeLong @ 9:17 AM | Access: Commons, Fair Use, Orphan Works, Public Domain, DRM & Watermarks, etc.

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