End of July, beginning of August 1996 there was a long discussion of the issues on the Usenet newsgroup, rec.music.folk, which discussion you can still find on the web. The subject header was The Digital Tradition, that should help you find it. I recognized a few of the contributors as people who are known here at Mudcat, viz., Abby Sale, Jack Campin, Dick Greenhaus, and me, and I may have missed some others.