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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
... But it does bring forth a concern about how we've so abandoned the past for the new and shiny. Despite the advances in technology, so much of the music of the past is not available digitally. ...
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What worries me more is that our vast wealth of educational material on the field of law is in jeopardy. The major American law schools of Harvard and Yale stopped teaching Constitutional Law many years ago, and most lawyers and attorneys these days only have access to laws that have been entered unto the proprietary (and expensive) Westlaw Database:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlaw
Constitutional Law books contain older and nobler laws that pre-date (and therefore take precedence over) modern administrative laws. It is a shame that they are becoming so hard to find. Modern law-makers do not even know that any laws they pass that conflict with older laws are constitutionally void, unless the older law has been ammended or repealed so that it is no longer in conflict.
Forsaking some old things by replacing them with new things is not always a good thing, which can sometimes affect our freedom or privacy, but certainly restricts our choices.
However, in the case of music, I can learn much more about what is available over the internet than I ever could by visiting local record stores (especially the music sections of big box chain stores that put a lot of smaller record shops out of business with their cheaper price on popular selections).
Many of the less-popular but often better-quality selections that were previosly found in obscure local record shops are now only a "google" away.