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Re: Heat Death of the Internet

From kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Heat Death of the Internet
Date 2024-05-04 14:01 +0000
Organization Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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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.

You are thinking of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs which are dye images.  Actual 
pressed disks have physically deposited images which do not fade.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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Heat Death of the Internet Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2024-05-02 03:54 +0000
  Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-02 12:34 +0200
    Re: Heat Death of the Internet Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2024-05-02 12:05 +0000
    Re: Heat Death of the Internet Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-05-02 14:47 +0200
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-03 11:39 +0200
    Re: Heat Death of the Internet Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2024-05-02 14:01 +0000
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-05-02 21:20 +0200
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-03 11:26 +0200
    Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-05-03 08:52 +1000
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-05-03 09:36 +0200
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2024-05-03 11:19 +0200
          Re: Heat Death of the Internet Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-05-03 11:32 +0200
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-03 11:32 +0200
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-05-04 08:58 +1000
          Re: Heat Death of the Internet scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2024-05-06 16:43 +0000
            Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-05-07 08:20 +1000
              Re: Heat Death of the Internet kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-05-12 13:06 +0000
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-05-04 14:01 +0000
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-03 11:30 +0200
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-05-04 08:39 +1000
          Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-04 13:03 +0200
  Re: Heat Death of the Internet Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-28 08:34 +0000
    Re: Heat Death of the Internet candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-07-28 14:40 +0000
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-28 19:15 +0200
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-07-29 08:51 +1000
          Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-29 11:06 +0200
            Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-07-30 08:20 +1000
              Re: Heat Death of the Internet candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-07-30 16:40 +0000
              Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-07-31 08:16 +1000
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-31 11:11 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2024-07-31 12:13 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-07-31 12:45 +0000
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-31 22:02 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-07-31 20:28 +0000
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-07-31 19:01 -0300
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-01 11:00 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-08-01 10:56 -0300
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-02 22:06 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2024-08-02 21:24 +0100
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-03 14:09 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-08-04 02:35 -0300
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-04 11:07 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-08-04 17:21 -0300
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-05 15:08 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-08-02 05:40 +0000
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-08-02 15:45 +0000
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-08-03 15:10 +0000
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-02 22:07 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-08-03 15:10 +0000

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