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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Our information density is wildly higher though, you can't look at only media lifetime.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    I was thinking about long-term historical traces (for which higher density tends to mean less lifetime), based on the dick drawings comment above; you're right for other considerations though.

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