From: "Geo." 

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:459e4b2f{at}w3.nls.net...
> The unique thing, is that the old analog formats, while troublesome with
> some generations of tape (gooey tape shed syndrome, which is another
> discussion totally), can be played, and the material recovered for
> re-issue. The Digital formats though, if the deterioration of the media is
> so great, that the error correction won't handle the scope of the errors,
> the audio mutes, and you have NADA.  So, in the digital world, it's an all
> or nothing deal.

The solution to all this is to allow filesharing networks and the general
public to archive stuff. The more copies the more likely to find a good
quality one in a format you can use. Long term copyrights are going to end
up costing society much in the way of lost content.

Geo.

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