Industry pros sweat the possibility that many digital files will eventually become unusable — an archival tragedy reminiscent of the celluloid era.
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Backup often and check the backups.
Backup often.
Backup often.
Use an open format. For extra sure, make sure it doesn’t carry DRM.
Uuuuh don’t be corrupt?
Like, really, it’s not like one’s asking too much.
Some of that could also be incompetence.
What was it again? “Don’t attribute to malice when it can be attributed to stupidity” something something?
Hanlon’s Razor
A friend has a corollary for that: “Don’t attribute to stupidity when it can be attributed to capitalism”.
Some executive somewhere:
That costs $
That costs $
That costs $
That costs $ (Probably, I’d ask IT but we laid them off as a cost reduction so meh )
That costs $
They can just use Hollywood Accounting, no problem!