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by acuozzo 3336 days ago
> I highly doubt it's going to be removed from circulation forever.

Agreed, but sometimes…

Shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire

Happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_MGM_vault_fire

Preservation requires distribution.

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Of course, and thankfully I know for a fact Blizzard has redundant backups of all their source control :)

The disc would die in a fire certainly, but so would it if it were at the Archive.