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    Company Claims That Its DVDs Will Last 1,000 Years

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    Apparently, DVD Copying Software Is Illegal

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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    08:21 PM

    In reply to Company Claims That Its DVDs Will Last 1,000 Years
    I've always thought burning real holes, with a high powered laser into stainless steel disks would be a good way to archive important data.

    Nobody would have to actually play these disks anyway, just read the data. #1000yeardvds
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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    08:17 PM

    In reply to Company Claims That Its DVDs Will Last 1,000 Years
    I always hear that canard "will we even be able to read it in x years? "
    I think that would be pretty simple for any civilization 1000 years more advanced than us. #1000yeardvds
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04:44 AM

    In reply to Company Claims That Its DVDs Will Last 1,000 Years
    The best part is that 1,000, technologically, might as well be millions, so before optical media even reaches 100 years, we'd probably have little reason to use it. I can't imagine anyone in their right mind being taken in by this snake oil disc.
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    Edited by Kaiser-Machead at 11/14/09 4:46 AM Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Michai Michai
    01:25 AM

    In reply to Company Claims That Its DVDs Will Last 1,000 Years
    I would like a 80mm mini CD version to put into my lead lined titanium urn along with a air tight vile of blood and some other notable scraps. I always thought a data disk with a bunch of info and files would be great for my future generations to enjoy. I know I like to look through my great grandparents things. It may sound morbid but hell we all die, may as well plan for it ; /
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    Edited by Michai at 11/14/09 1:26 AM Michai was starred Michai was unstarred
    Image of j05hu4 j05hu4
    09:41 AM

    @Michai: Everybody will be amused and shocked by your cached internet history files. #1000yeardvds
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    Image of Michai Michai
    12:37 PM

    @j05hu4: lol, I was thinking more towards family pictures, important documents and my digital art. But it might be interesting to hide a folder containing my porn collection.

    "..and here Jimmy is your great great granddads art work, and whats this.... oh dear god!"

    "mommy why were those naked people wrestling?" #1000yeardvds
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    01:20 AM

    In reply to Company Claims That Its DVDs Will Last 1,000 Years
    Great for immortalizing your porn collection, I guess. #1000yeardvds
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    01:04 AM

    In reply to Company Claims That Its DVDs Will Last 1,000 Years
    I’m thinking "So what." We all know that a few years down the line someone is going to come up with an even more efficient form of data storage, and these disks will be obsolete. All I can think of when I see this, is the boxes of VHS tapes I have sitting in the garage. #1000yeardvds
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    Image of B-low B-low
    01:21 AM

    @Software_Goddess: Homemade movies *wink*? #1000yeardvds
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    01:26 AM

    @B-low: Some of them

    ;-) #1000yeardvds
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    01:00 AM

    In reply to Company Claims That Its DVDs Will Last 1,000 Years
    Finally, we will now no longer have worry that a copy of "Spice World" won't survive to show future generations how to be their lovers. #1000yeardvds
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    Image of B-low B-low
    01:02 AM


    @GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee: I think the one in the middle is Emma Bunton.
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    GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee promoted this comment Edited by B-low at 11/14/09 1:03 AM B-low was starred B-low was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    01:11 AM

    @B-low: I'm a Mel C. fan. Sorry. #1000yeardvds
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    Image of B-low B-low
    01:20 AM

    @GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee: Don't be sorry we're all mistaken from time to time :) #1000yeardvds
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    Image of Calzo Calzo
    12:57 AM

    In reply to Company Claims That Its DVDs Will Last 1,000 Years
    I assume they tested this? #1000yeardvds
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    12:45 AM

    In reply to Company Claims That Its DVDs Will Last 1,000 Years
    Yeah, I have a feeling that, even if we still had DVD players in 1000 years, optical media isn't how you'd want to store your things over the next millennium... #1000yeardvds
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    Image of dingus dingus
    09/10/09

    In reply to LG's N2R1 Wi-Fi NAS Shares 1TB of Media for $299
    What's under the hood? Is it yet another embedded ARM/PPC/MIPS or Atom?
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    Image of appletoad appletoad
    09/10/09

    In reply to LG's N2R1 Wi-Fi NAS Shares 1TB of Media for $299
    If it had 802.11n, I'd be sold. Damn.
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    Image of MacAttack7388 MacAttack7388
    08/12/09

    In reply to Apparently, DVD Copying Software Is Illegal
    So wait, CD ripping software, like iTunes is legal, but DVD ripping is not? Seems to me like the motion picture industry has better lobbyists.
    Oh, the almighty dollar.
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    Image of BloggyMcBlogBlog BloggyMcBlogBlog
    08/12/09

    @MacAttack7388: I believe it has to do with encryption. CD's aren't encrypted so you don't have to break the encryption to make a copy. Since DVD's are encrypted, the circumvention of the encryption is what is illegal.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    08/12/09

    In reply to Apparently, DVD Copying Software Is Illegal
    Yeah? Well osculate with my posterior, douchebiscuit. Unless a more convenient, legal and less restrictive means to have my library exist as a collection of files on my Macbook/iPod becomes more apparent, HandBrake will be my bestest friend in the whole wide world.
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    Edited by Kaiser-Machead at 08/12/09 10:21 AM Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Intelext Intelext
    08/12/09

    In reply to Apparently, DVD Copying Software Is Illegal
    I don't see what the problem is with dvd copying software. I bought the cd and thus it is my property and i can do whatever i want with it, i don't see how anyone can say you can't do xxx with YOUR dvd.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    08/12/09

    @Intelext: Don't listen to them. Let 'er rip ;)
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    Image of rcast1986 rcast1986
    08/12/09

    In reply to Apparently, DVD Copying Software Is Illegal
    Well fuck that.
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