Sun puts Internet Archive in a box, but will it stay there? – Ars Technica
One of the technologies for really long-term preservation was … a titanium disk about the size of a long-playing record, and it was supposed to last 10,000 years. But then they realized that there were some assumptions that weren’t right, and that it would not last 1,000 years, it might only last 20.
This reminded me of what I’ve always found to be a strong argument against strong copyright–the more copies there are of something, the better chance it has of surviving over time. Perhaps we need to encourage the copying of materials that are important to our society/culture.
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