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Bit/media rot exists, and it is a matter of time until we lose those bits (or however the signals are encoded) to entropy. Considering the fact that many piece
by mrbungie 2y ago
Bit/media rot exists, and it is a matter of time until we lose those bits (or however the signals are encoded) to entropy.
Considering the fact that many pieces of media in streaming services disappear all the time, I think we're fucked from a preservation point of view.
- crazygringo 2y agoSure, but with bit rot you would have had to buy a new disc anyways. Preservation is a totally different subject. It's an ongoing challenge that is nothing new, and something librarians and archivists have made an entire profession out of. Although these days, preservation is actually astonishingly easy for end users who store media in major clouds like AWS, since the cloud providers take care of eternally ensuring redundancy and re-copying data to new hard drives as soon as old ones fail.
- TylerE 2y agoThe point is you’re not going to eh able to hit a new disc anymore…
- crazygringo 2y agoI was originally responding to the person who said: > All part of the plan for everyone to have to repurchase all the content they already own. Again. If you're arguing that you want to repurchase, then I don't know what we're talking about anymore.
- thejazzman 2y agonew movies that don't yet exist won't ever be available? that sucks?
- layer8 2y agoA lot of people rip their Blu-rays, there are many hoarders with NASes full of rips and exchanging them via torrents. Preservation is being taken care of in that sense, as long as there are people with that hobby. The problem is for other people to get access to that.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoWhich is entirely about copyright lengths being too long.
- gosub100 2y agoI'm approaching 16k 1080p movies.
- thejazzman 2y agothat sounds like a nightmare to browse and watch; i'm already annoyed by my much smaller library in this regard