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Re:I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? by Semaphor on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @01:19AM (#18704869)
> Years ago in partnership with the National Archives Amazon.com digitized a tremendous amount of film for the National Archives, with the catch that the material cannot be freely disseminated online by the National Archives until Amazon breaks even on their digitization investment. It’s been years now and for a variety of reasons - many of which are Amazon’s fault - there still exist a solid number of discs that Amazon hasn’t sold even one of. (In part because amazon hasn’t even had them all available to sell. Pretty ridiculous).

> The flipside of the catch is that the DVDs can be viewed and even copied for $0 on site by researchers. I am doing research there and I have have a research pass. I was looking at many of these titles yesterday. It’s time to set these national treasures free.

-- https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/a6fkpm/i_have_...

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Re:I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? by traek on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @02:06AM (#18705007)
That doesn’t answer what type of media is on the disks.
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Re:I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? by lurker_primo on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @02:14AM (#18705031)
It says film. So, it could be movies or images. What else would be possible? Are you thinking of quickest ways to rip the DVDs if they are movies?
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Re:I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? by SmellyGeekBoy on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @04:09AM (#18705371)
Yes, but "film" could refer to a lot of different content. Movies, TV shows, documentaries, commercials, interviews, news reports etc.

GP was just wondering out loud about the content itself, not the format of said content.

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Re:I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? by userbinator on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @08:04AM (#18706134)
A little off-topic, but it's interesting to see the shift in meaning of the "reel of film" icon over the decades; a long time ago, it would signify any video, but now it's more associated with an actual cinema film.
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Re:I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? by 1024core on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @12:13PM (#18708286)
So... it's already been 3 days, right?
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