The West Video and the Free Market

There I go again: the West video and the Free Market ( http://bit.ly/2b6ynZ ).

RT @trbruce: There I go again: the West video and the Free Market ( http://bit.ly/2b6ynZ ). [who you calling an uploadin' hippie with ADS?]

RT @trbruce There I go again: the West video and the Free Market ( http://bit.ly/2b6ynZ ).

RT @trbruce: There I go again: the West video and the Free Market ( http://bit.ly/2b6ynZ ).

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You are making me regret that ‘tempest in a teapot’ characterization — this is, of course, important stuff! I agree that the real promise of the bulk data ‘movement’ is a lessening of barriers of entry to a wider range of competitive, entrepreneurial, information services. Also that this would be a development that perhaps has the biggest impact, among major vendors, on West, given its historically tight links to the producers of legal texts and privileged position in the marketplace for authentic/official legal information.

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