Responds to Targeting Obsolete Media
Some of the world's largest record labels, including and (), filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive and others for the , a community effort for the preservation, research and discovery of #78 pm records that are 70 to 120 years old.
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"...the Great 78 Project, a community effort for the preservation, research and discovery of 78 rpm that are 70 to 120 years old...

Through the efforts of dedicated , and sound engineers, we have preserved hundreds of thousands of recordings that are stored on shellac resin, an obsolete and brittle medium. The resulting preserved recordings retain the scratch and pop sounds that are present in the analog artifacts; noise that modern remastering techniques remove...

These preservation recordings are used in and $research...

“When people want to listen to music they go to Spotify. When people want to study sound recordings as they were originally created, they go to libraries like the Internet Archive. Both are needed. There shouldn’t be conflict here.”


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mmmm. Making stew right now. Seems like the right time to listen to some good ol' scratchy, drawly cowboy strains on the Victrola and share this image of a good ol' cowboy, doing his legitimate cow business.

Teardrops in My Heart, via archive.org's Great 78 Project (@great78):

archive.org/details/78_teardro

and nice cowboy by photographer David Stoecklein.

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@textfiles As soon as I finish going through the 78's maybe I'll move on to the cassettes.

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@just_alex @Joaquincastrotx The is one of those secrets that everyone should know about (I only found out about it when looking for a home for my Great Aunt's 78rpm opera collection (which they gratefully received and digitized.)

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