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.
Some executive somewhere:
In fact, files end up corrupted,
Backup often and check the backups.
That costs $
data is improperly transferred
Backup often.
That costs $
hard drives fail
Backup often.
That costs $
formats change
Use an open format. For extra sure, make sure it doesn’t carry DRM.
That costs $ (Probably, I’d ask IT but we laid them off as a cost reduction so meh )
work simply vanishes.
Uuuuh don’t be corrupt?
That costs $
They can just use Hollywood Accounting, no problem!
work simply vanishes.
Uuuuh don’t be corrupt?
Some of that could also be incompetence.
What was it again? “Don’t attribute to malice when it can be attributed to stupidity” something something?
Hanlon’s Razor
A friend has a corollary for that: “Don’t attribute to stupidity when it can be attributed to capitalism”.
Huh, I assumed they were spending the money to archive digital content with redundancy just like they did celluloid.
They aren’t spending the money to preserve film either. The best case is storing the film in salt mines, and that only slows the degradation. Film isn’t being digitally scanned unless there’s a uhd release to profit from it, and every week that it isn’t scanned, it degrades a little more
That’s not profitable in this quarter.
This
The current censorship of media companies and stream services is a much bigger threat to the preservation of media than digital decaying could ever be.
zpool scrub movies
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.
Personally, I think it’s okay for things to disappear sometimes. Nothing is permanent. I have no anxiety about this.
Am I the only one kind of relieved when I loose digital files in a drive failure? Its kind of like a chance to start fresh. Yes I liked having pictures of my dead pets and relatives from 10 years ago but I wasn’t going to ever look at them again. I have my memories and that’s enough. Yes I liked having a copy of all the shows I ever enjoyed but I lost interest in half of them over the years and was likely never going to rewatch them locally or not.
There’s a time and a place for all things, digital files are no exception. When the time has passed long ago and the place no longer exist as it once did, its time to let go
Yes I liked having pictures of my dead pets and relatives from 10 years ago but I wasn’t going to ever look at them again. I have my memories and that’s enough.
I used to think like this but I’ve found that going through those old pictures is a good way to bring up memories you wouldn’t otherwise think about again. I like to do that when I’m in a funk and it really helps to clear my head of nasty emotions.
A guy I work with can get you anything you want. For $5 he’ll fill a USB stick .
I’d do it for free. Profiting off middle-manning piracy is scummy imo.
The content, for sure. I’ll just ask they provide their own USB drive, or I’ll buy a good one for them and fill it if they’ll comp me for that.
Not that it’s not but, with the prices of tech, what is the “profit” here? At least around where I live, $5 gets you a only barely-decent USB stick.
Sounded to me like the user paid $5 and supplied the USB. I dunno, never occurred to me someone would buy a flash drive for someone else. That’s odd to me. Everyone has one these days and I’d not want to bother with buying a flash drive for someone else.
I don’t think it’s any scummier than charging for software you’ve already made millions of dollars (profit) off of.
But we agree to disagree with a lot of things.
Huh? I don’t follow.
For free I’ll teach you how to do it yourself.
