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“It’s a Silent Fire”: Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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[-] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe someday all this media will be archived as dna: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dna-the-ultimate-data-storage-solution/

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't understand the interest in DNA as a storage. It's only long-living as part of the evolutionary proces in a living organism (with no guarantee for the survival of the data), but otherwise really fragile. And hard to interface and with slow read/write on top of that.

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