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Copyrights and CD-Rs Endanger Audio History
SEWilco writes "A study by the Library of Congress has found that many audio recordings are being lost due to copyright restrictions and temporary media. Old audio recordings are protected by a various US state copyrights, so it's hard for preservationists to get and copy material. Recent data is threatened by being put on writable CDs, because CD-Rs begin to lose data after a few years, so recordings from as recently as 9/11 and the 2008 elections are already at risk."
The government must be using this as an excuse to destroy evidences on 9/11.
Does not the Library of Congress make it a habit to acquire as much of this kind of material as possible? Isn't seen as a mark of success to have your recordings in the LOC?
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Were CD-Rs the things we used before floppy disks, but after mercury delay lines, or have I got the order wrong? They were those black things with a a paper label in the middle, yes?
Jesus Christ, that was just last month!
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Most people were storing their Slashdot bookmarks on CD-R, clearly.
It's what?
Memorex claims 300 year life for their fancy (expensive) archival CD-R and 100 years for DVD-R.
Take that with a grain of salt, of course.
I would recommend keeping salt and your archival CDs separate.
Sigh. I know how that feels.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I think exposure to sunlight has a detrimental effect on them. So us basement dwellers are safe! I mean... you basement dwellers
It is also important for humanity not to repeat their same mistakes. Justin Beaver recordings NEED to be protected/archived!