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Abolishinist

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2. Interesting... I was listening to my usual AM radio station this

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Dec 23, 2022, 11:08 PM

Dec 2022

morning in the car on my way to the office and the host was talking about this very thing... how the copyright lapse gave it free air-time and was thus broadcast much more than it would have otherwise which, as the times and audiences changed, elevated it to its current status.

Never knew that.

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