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Re: Heat Death of the Internet

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Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
> Am 03.05.2024 schrieb not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev):
> 
>> Scratched discs would be your enemy here. Old DVDs find their way
>> to second hand stores which sell them for very little money, but
>> usually a good percentage of them are scratched to unwatchability.
>> Renting DVDs always had more risk than renting VHS tapes due to
>> scratched discs, even though they usually had disc polishing
>> machines which they might use to some effect after you went back
>> to the store and complained. I don't think video DVDs and audio
>> CDs were fit for the purpose of replacing tape in the first place,
>> and the rapid adoption of streaming and P2P downloads is the cost
>> that the old media industry paid for that. Much to the benefit of
>> ISPs and the new internet media companies like Amazon and Google.
> 
> CDs and DVDs also become unreadable after some years, especially when
> light reaches them.

Commercial CDs and DVDs should be pretty bullet-proof if you don't
do anything silly like try to use them and thereby accumulate
scratches. It's recordable CDs and DVDs that have an organic dye
which degrades over time, at a rate that varies semi-randomly
depending on manufacturer and storage conditions. Commercial discs
don't have that because the discs themselves are moulded from a
metal master disc (maybe the wong technical terminology) that has
the data recorded on it.

DVDs do apparantly have an extra protective layer that's not on
CDs, allowing the DVD polishing machines at rental stores some
material to wear away before they reach the data.

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