Comment Re:Lifespan (Score 1) 110
I'm curious: I've read many times that pretty much all organic optical media has a certain lifespan, 15-20 years at most, normally less than that. And I'm almost sure that as we go higher with storage density, the problems gets even worse, so CDs may survive longer than e.g. Blu-Ray disks. How do fans deal with this? Or they are not thinking that far?
It only needs to last long enough for a single successful rip to my media streaming server. After that, the disc only exists to satisfy my moral and ethical obligations, so I really don't care whether the disc works, so long as it remains in my possession. Library copies are great for that reason: dirt cheap and only need to work once.
Once they're ripped, the discs go in sleeves that live in a storage box in a closet (to minimize space used while keeping the discs intact for as long as possible just in case we need to re-rip), the DVD/blu-ray boxes go in a storage bag that lives in the attic (they can dry rot for all I care), and any digital codes get redeemed so that we have digital access via as many avenues as possible. The ripped copy is backed up both locally and in the cloud.