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I wonder if old CD will be looked after. CD are subject to rot (especially the ones before the nineties), so it will be a big risk for people buying them (peopl
by louhike 5y ago
I wonder if old CD will be looked after. CD are subject to rot (especially the ones before the nineties), so it will be a big risk for people buying them (people often talk about it in the video games community).
- petercooper 5y agoI'm not sure how it'll be in decades to come, but so far I've had a lot of luck even with "soiled" CDs from the 90s and error correction seems to make up for a lot. They are far more robust than DVDs, at least, which can generally go in the garbage beyond a certain state.