Yes but what to convert it to and who will store it? There should be a UN like international effort to set up resources for storing digital media (books, musi

Yes but what to convert it to and who will store it? There should be a UN like international effort to set up resources for storing digital media (books, music, film, tv, games, journals, comics etc) for the long term. A few hundred years for sure. All digital media made in the entire world and all that can be digitized stored from the beginning until the end. A constant accumulating treasure. Doesn't have to be streaming, but there should be a way for a person to request a copy. (if permissible by the copyright holder) One thing that hurts me to think about are the hundreds of thousands of books that you cant read. The book has a small run, never republished, and for the most part never to be seen again. I wish each one was submitted to the above archive, The copyright holder is making 0 by holding is hostage from people reading it. Allowing people to read it thus would not lead to less of revenue. Perhaps a system of micropayments for still copyrighted but will never be seen again media. I say books because I love books, but movies, etc as well. All of it. I have started making a tiny effort myself by scanning and typesetting book published by members of my family a ways back. I know that Library of Congress has a lot of good stuff, but it only collects fromt he US (I think) In Norway Nasjoanlbiblioteket has a lot of stuff that is Norwegian.