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We at archive.org now realize that our mistaken attempts to move quickly were based on what we thought the Grateful Dead wanted.
For this we apologize both to the Grateful Dead and their community.
There has been a great deal of reaction, our actions have caused more than necessary.
We believe these changes will be more appropriate for both the Grateful Dead and its community:
* Audience recordings will be restored as they were before-- for download and streaming.
* Soundboard recordings will be available streaming only.
Thank you all for helping guide this process. There may be changes in the future, but for now there is access to great concerts,
and the audience recordings may be downloaded from here freely.
This will take a day or two to fully implement.
-brewster
Founder, Digital Librarian Internet Archive
-Matt Vernon
Volunteer Archive.org
I, for one am glad to hear this.
If you get confused, listen to the music play.
