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Funny how bittorrent solved this with a simple distributed hash algorithm…
I guess fuck using what works, amirite?
Pirates are unironically better digital stewards of content and history than media organizations.
In fact, files end up corrupted,
Backup often and check the backups.
data is improperly transferred
Backup often.
hard drives fail
Backup often.
formats change
Use an open format. For extra sure, make sure it doesn’t carry DRM.
work simply vanishes.
Uuuuh don’t be corrupt?
Like, really, it’s not like one’s asking too much.
Huh, I assumed they were spending the money to archive digital content with redundancy just like they did celluloid.
That’s not profitable in this quarter.
This
zpool scrub movies
Personally, I think it’s okay for things to disappear sometimes. Nothing is permanent. I have no anxiety about this.
Maybe someday all this media will be archived as dna: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dna-the-ultimate-data-storage-solution/
I don’t understand the interest in DNA as a storage. It’s only long-living as part of the evolutionary proces in a living organism (with no guarantee for the survival of the data), but otherwise really fragile. And hard to interface and with slow read/write on top of that.