I believe the issue is that the dye that is used to burn the disc starts to degrade, especially on cheaper discs. I think pressed CDs can last a lot longer bec

I believe the issue is that the dye that is used to burn the disc starts to degrade, especially on cheaper discs. I think pressed CDs can last a lot longer because of this fact, since that's actual physical pits and grooves. I am pretty convinced that there simply doesn't really exist consumer-writable data that you don't have to babysit.