On 2014-04-17 17:10, Anton Aylward wrote:
Don't get me started on what the RIAA doesn't want me to copy: 45s, 8-tracks, cassettes, thousands of dollars worth of 12" vinyl. They expected me to replace that with thousands of dollars of Cds, and now those are to become targets for skeet-shooting rather than paperweights, as I spend more thousands to convert my collection to mp3 and oggvorbis.
Paperweights, landfill ...
Apparently, the master digital copies of Hollywood movies are so huge (over 8 terabytes each) that long term storage is made on _film_. Not colour film, but 3 B/W copies, one for each colour. And this in triplicate. This is guaranteed to last for a century at least, whereas a digital copy has to be regenerated and moved to new media every few years - worst than papyrus. (and migrating a single digital copy of that size takes more than simply hours) (source: ieee spectrum 3.14, p.32) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)