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Re:John Peel’s Record Collection to be Made Public by noonespecial on Monday April 30, 2012 @10:19AM (#3909338)
They aren't. They're posting just his notes. In most cases, they can't even scan the sleeve. Thanks to copyright, history will have a fabulous written record of all of the material that was completely lost.
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Re:John Peel’s Record Collection to be Made Public by dclowd9901 on Monday April 30, 2012 @12:03PM (#3909781)
Reading your comment just broke my damn heart in two.

It's situations like copyright that make me just want to go completely underground and write applications that are illegal, unscrupulous and unethical.

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Re:John Peel’s Record Collection to be Made Public by davepeck on Monday April 30, 2012 @01:14PM (#3910196)
Heartbreaking and infuriating. My only consolation is that I suspect an epic John Peel torrent will pop up a couple years after the archive goes live. Without the bits, the online 'collection' strikes me a hollow facsimile of the real thing.
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Re:John Peel’s Record Collection to be Made Public by noonespecial on Monday April 30, 2012 @06:30PM (#3911907)
I suspect what you write would only be one of those three things.
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Re:John Peel’s Record Collection to be Made Public by keithpeter on Monday April 30, 2012 @11:03AM (#3909538)
Perhaps some of the money will go to preserving the records themselves in an underground archive somewhere in London (or another UK location).

My fantasy would be filling in a reader's card, descending the staircase, and reverently removing various treasures from their sleeves and cueing them up on a BBC issue record player (think heavy machinery).

But, I suspect you may be right.

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Re:John Peel’s Record Collection to be Made Public by dazzawazza on Monday April 30, 2012 @12:38PM (#3909978)
Oh, well. Oh. OK. So...... yeah, that'll be nice.

I am actually sure that most of the Heavy Metal bands he played would gladly hand over rights to the music and artwork. They should talk to Napalm Death.

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