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CDs May be Less Immortal than We Thought

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the trusting-the-media dept.

Zordak writes "The near-immortality of CDs, sometimes used as an excuse by record companies as an argument for their high cost, may not be as eternal as touted. An article at CNN describes the problem of CD Rot rearing its head to deny you access to your music and data. The article also describes related problems with CD-Rs, CD-RWs and DVDs."

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  1. "than We Thought? by damiam · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Has any /. reader not heard about this? Several times?

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  2. Does your CD skip? Slashdot sure does! by iansmith · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I think this is the third, or maybe fourth story about the fact that CDs which have not been around for 100 years to do testing on, may not actually last 100 years. Duh.

    I think this is the third...

  3. Re:(yawn) by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In Soviet Russia, CNN prints old Slashdot news!

  4. I think you mean it raises the question. by Carbon+Unit+549 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Please read this for the correct usage of that term.

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