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by ui4jd73bdj 1524 days ago
It's easier until it isn't. That dvd will probably still be around 50 years later. Your spotify playlist? I highly doubt it.
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I don’t even know where the DVDs I had 10 years ago are. Lost in moving I guess. And I don’t have any devices to play them on. While my data online accounts are almost all still intact with all the data I left on them.
The data maybe. The dvd wont be playable in 50 years. Not necessarily disk degradation but hardware obsolescence. You will need to keep copying every 10-20 years to supported media.
Well it's been 30 years for some of my cds and new hardware with cd support is still being created today. But maybe in another 20 years I will be too busy enjoying my flying car to care about my cds.