Copyrights and CD-Rs Endanger Audio History 202
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."
Conspiracy theorists were right! (Score:2, Funny)
Library of Congress (Score:3, Funny)
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?
Remind me. (Score:1, Funny)
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?
holy shit REALLY? (Score:5, Funny)
Jesus Christ, that was just last month!
Re:Old news.... (Score:1, Funny)
Most people were storing their Slashdot bookmarks on CD-R, clearly.
Re:As long as computer gaming doesn't end! (Score:1, Funny)
It's what?
Re:holy shit REALLY? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:300 years... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Depends on the Discs (Score:5, Funny)
Sigh. I know how that feels.
Re:Depends on the Discs (Score:3, Funny)
I think exposure to sunlight has a detrimental effect on them. So us basement dwellers are safe! I mean... you basement dwellers
Re:The essential forgetting (Score:3, Funny)
Re:holy shit REALLY? (Score:2, Funny)