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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Some executive somewhere:

In fact, files end up corrupted,

Backup often and check the backups.

That costs $

data is improperly transferred

Backup often.

That costs $

hard drives fail

Backup often.

That costs $

formats change

Use an open format. For extra sure, make sure it doesn’t carry DRM.

That costs $ (Probably, I’d ask IT but we laid them off as a cost reduction so meh )

work simply vanishes.

Uuuuh don’t be corrupt?

That costs $

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