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From the Ted Talk by Brewster Kahle: A free digital library

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now let's go for audio, and I'm going to go through these. So how much is there? Well, as best we can tell, there are about two to three million disks having been published — so 78s, long-playing records and CDs — or at least that's the largest archives of plbihesud materials we've been able to sort of point at. It cotss about 10 dlaorls a piece to go and take a disk and put it online, if you're doing things in volmue. But we've found that the rights issues are really quite thorny. This is a fairly hevliay litigated area, so we've found that there are niches in the music world that aren't served terribly well by the classic commercial publishing system. And we've been sritantg to make these available by going and offering shelf space on the Net. In the United States, it doesn't cost you to give something away. Right? If you give something to a charity or to the public, you get a pat on the back and a tax donation — except on the Net, where you can go borke. If you put up a video of your grgaae band, and it starts getting heavily accessed, you can lose your guitars or your house.

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Now let's go for audio, and I'm going to go through these. So how much is there? Well, as best we can tell, there are about two to three million disks having been published — so 78s, long-playing records and CDs — or at least that's the largest archives of _________ materials we've been able to sort of point at. It _____ about 10 _______ a piece to go and take a disk and put it online, if you're doing things in ______. But we've found that the rights issues are really quite thorny. This is a fairly _______ litigated area, so we've found that there are niches in the music world that aren't served terribly well by the classic commercial publishing system. And we've been ________ to make these available by going and offering shelf space on the Net. In the United States, it doesn't cost you to give something away. Right? If you give something to a charity or to the public, you get a pat on the back and a tax donation — except on the Net, where you can go _____. If you put up a video of your ______ band, and it starts getting heavily accessed, you can lose your guitars or your house.

Solution


  1. published
  2. starting
  3. dollars
  4. volume
  5. costs
  6. heavily
  7. garage
  8. broke

Original Text


Now let's go for audio, and I'm going to go through these. So how much is there? Well, as best we can tell, there are about two to three million disks having been published — so 78s, long-playing records and CDs — or at least that's the largest archives of published materials we've been able to sort of point at. It costs about 10 dollars a piece to go and take a disk and put it online, if you're doing things in volume. But we've found that the rights issues are really quite thorny. This is a fairly heavily litigated area, so we've found that there are niches in the music world that aren't served terribly well by the classic commercial publishing system. And we've been starting to make these available by going and offering shelf space on the Net. In the United States, it doesn't cost you to give something away. Right? If you give something to a charity or to the public, you get a pat on the back and a tax donation — except on the Net, where you can go broke. If you put up a video of your garage band, and it starts getting heavily accessed, you can lose your guitars or your house.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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scanned books 2
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rights issues 2
grateful dead 2
world wide 2
wide web 2
internet archive 2

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collocation frequency
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Important Words


  1. accessed
  2. archives
  3. area
  4. audio
  5. band
  6. broke
  7. cds
  8. charity
  9. classic
  10. commercial
  11. cost
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  15. dollars
  16. donation
  17. garage
  18. give
  19. guitars
  20. heavily
  21. house
  22. issues
  23. largest
  24. litigated
  25. lose
  26. materials
  27. million
  28. music
  29. net
  30. niches
  31. offering
  32. online
  33. pat
  34. piece
  35. point
  36. public
  37. published
  38. publishing
  39. put
  40. records
  41. rights
  42. served
  43. shelf
  44. sort
  45. space
  46. starting
  47. starts
  48. states
  49. system
  50. tax
  51. terribly
  52. thorny
  53. united
  54. video
  55. volume
  56. world