As I said earlier, the problem is that a huge commercial operation is deciding purely on a commercial basis, which musical items are worth (in their understanding of the word, ie $$$$) retaining & making available for people.
This is not just for folk music, but presumably applies to other minority genres, like certain types of jazz, world music, blues etc.

Gargoyle- to download material is fine for most, but the material has to be there in the first place- that's the problem!