It's just a matter of storing them sensibly. I recently backed up four to five hundred CD-Rs to DVD, and had ONE dodgy disc, which I knew was flaky anyway (I didn't burn it myself). The CD-Rs dated from 1994 until about 2002.

(I always burn at the slowest speed possible, put the discs in slim jewel cases, then store the cases in a cardboard box in the spare room.)

"its main selling points are speed, simplicity and security"

Pick any two.

I've been tearing my hair out trying to rip these damn Copy Protected CDs; 2 of my drives won't let me, period, and the 3rd will only let me rip with many many C2 errors (using PerfectRip in Windows). I've tried various tools in Ubuntu, no dice.

Have you managed to rip one of these discs with no errors at all?

Wow. You have my sympathy (for all the good that does). What's the latest re: destroying your fingerprints and DNA?

Absolutely. And no-one can tell when you're using it. (Unless you're purposely doing something odd)

Well, er, thanks. For me, T2 was just completely over-cooked and pompous (ditto 'True Lies', which I also detested). T3 had its flaws, but it was gone before it could leave a sour taste, plus it had a cool (for Hollywood) ending.

In your opinion... (of course).

I loved T1, thought T2 was a bunch of overblown tiresome crap, and really enjoyed T3.

For me, it was T2 that stunk up the place.