As physical production of digital media ends, there will be no history except what we take from them.
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The lack of options to watch most movies made pre-VHS gives us some indication of how this will all pan out. And it’s not pretty.
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This is my favorite thread on the subject ever. Some scrolling back required. You have probably read, but everyone should. https://twitter.com/foone/status/1040670567047749632?s=21 …https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1040670567047749632 …
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There’s lots of things I’d like to buy digital copies of but the market is too small to justify the legal costs. I can name hundreds of tunes that’ll never appear in streaming services.
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Can I get a Blu Ray if 2007 SOLARIS? I can not.
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I'm hoping it goes the abandonware route that classic software's taken. If rights and licenses are so convoluted that it's either not known who can - or not worth it to those who own it to make something available legally, hopefully legal enforcement will be just as low-effort.
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There should be licensing statue of limitations and the content should then become public domain.
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hell, I just want SCOTUS to declare "hands off" in the Oracle (Sun) / Goog API war - if you can't have a "well known name" for an interface w/ a commonly accepted list of params w/ a contract for expected behavior our entire industry will hear a great flushing sound...
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I’m in favour of preservation, but also, historically, isn’t like 99.99...% of *everything* lost? Songs, stories, paintings, buildings, oral history, entire languages and cultures. It’s not a new problem. It *might* be new that it feels like we *should* be able to preserve more.
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constant change in hardware / software + licensing & DRM challenges is going to cause a major loss of data as they get tossed onto the digital midden heap. This is why hackers and technophiles are vital. Legal is not always "right" "ILLEGAL" isn't always WRONG.
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