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From: Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de>
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Subject: Re: Heat Death of the Internet
Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 09:36:16 +0200
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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.