Suppose I put a large audio collection on my hard drive and back it up to a
cloud service. I access it through a password process.

Suppose that, upon my death, I have someone publish that password process to
the internet, to, say a site on which that can be found. Or include that
data in my obit.

Suppose I have no estate of suable size. What's to prevent this?

Steve Smolian



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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Conflict Over File Sharing


> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Nelson-Strauss, Brenda
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> Along the lines of Matt's post, I've been wondering for quite some
> time if anyone is trying to capture and preserve the many free
> downloads that are offered on (what appears to be) a daily basis.
> Anyone know of a collector building an archive centered around a
particular genre of download-only music (mixtapes, rap, R&B, etc.)?

As a collector of classical recordings, I acquire quite a bit of stuff, much
of it historical in nature. I am constantly amazed at what some collectors
have recorded and acquired over the years. The internet is the same as was
trading tapes years ago. There are sites like unsung composers, where so
much can be found. One correspondent of mine has a collection of 15,000 CDRs
full of downloaded mp3s.

Just as there is the classical underground, I know of one collector who has
collected hundreds of downloads of live jazz performances.

For me, there remains the question of "preserve." I share some of my
collection with several sites and email lists. For me, this has become the
default for preservation. It is my hope that perhaps some individual might
find enough value in something that they would pass it along to someone
else.


Karl