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Did They Lie To Us?

"Lied"? Well,...they may have, but one thing was certain...."Archival" was initionally, one of the Label's main selling points. However, how could anyone or any party have truly known.

After observing "CD Rot", my pitch has always been...with any metal base storage, you will eventually, have "Tear-down". With Vinyl, it is Petro based storage, its the Berra Tar Pits...it'll be here....Forever!

If you buy a new CD, and 4-months later it erodes, and you still have the record of when, and where you paid for it......then what, and who is resposible??
 
Scooter Lesley said:
If you buy a new CD, and 4-months later it erodes, and you still have the record of when, and where you paid for it......then what, and who is resposible??
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The manufacturer. If you paid full price, have a receipt, and can prove it's a manufacturing defect, take it back to the store.

One area where you're wrong: YOU are not the archivist. You do not own archival rights to the music. That is owned by the record label. You have no rights to the content of the music other than the private listening of it.

I've been to seminars where the subject has been long-term archiving of music. The life of a CD is anywhere from 5 to 50 years. But that's it. Record labels and movie companies, even the Grammy Museum, often go to outside archival companies like Iron Mountain for long term storage of music masters. They keep watch over data decay, and have systems for ensuring that the archive is secure. And then you have the Library Of Congress, which is the national archive for recorded content. They are the ones responsible for holding at least one master copy of every copyrighted recording made.
 
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Well,...I step away, and the Great Quote Cloud Posters get into a Battle of The Boobs!

First off, The Library Of Congress archives on Reel-to-Real tape. Those tapes are well kept, in a controled climate vaults, but again....metal based storage.

Is there an Archival CD? Yes, there is, and they are mostly found at Photo Labs.
Worrrrrrrr-ied about those Photos of Granny,...well, back it up with "Gold" CDR's
Yep, the only metal that doesn't seem to have a "Tear-Down".

Also, accoring to some of my Geeky friends, the safest place for any data is on a Hard Drive; with the common sense to have that data backed twice more, in some manner.
Yes, Hard Drives are metal, but much thicker that a spray of foil.

Scooter's new practice: Rip the music to your HD, and then, sell the damn thing, on
e-bay, before it has time to pinhole. Keep the Vinyl, as it goes up in value, in time.
 
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