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The article was quite clear on this in multiple places, there were guarantees that you still owned the media and that it would be returned. The problem is, who
by mark-r 7y ago
The article was quite clear on this in multiple places, there were guarantees that you still owned the media and that it would be returned.
The problem is, who guarantees the guarantors?
- java-man 7y agoExactly my point. With deposits, you have FDIC insurance. With this, you have nothing.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoThis is a great reason to have discs backed up in digital form (in multiple orgs, not locations). Insurance covers the value lost, but not the content. Archive/Backup All The Things. Physical media archived away someone with no other copies? Not even once.
- dddddaviddddd 7y agoThat's how music master tapes are stored. Irreplaceable originals often stored by contractors. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-m...
- mark-r 7y agoIn some cases, they've decided the digital backups are good enough and destroyed the irreplaceable originals. On purpose, not by accident.
- nkrisc 7y agoPromises are cheap. Be able to sue or absorb the loss (financial and sentimental).