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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by stakhanov on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @01:58AM (#34689627)
"Bitrot" is not a law of nature. Rather, protection from it is a racket. Media by far outlive the usefulness of the data on them, which is subject to planned obsolescence. They sell you a solution to a problem that wouldn't exist if they themselves hadn't created it.

I own a MacBook from 2010, fully equipped with software that cost me 4 figures back then (Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office, various bits of commercial music production software etc. etc.) and came with perpetual licenses and physical media.

...yet somehow they managed to render it worthless so that they could charge me again for what I already owned, namely office software and design software.

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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by iso1631 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @06:40AM (#34691443)
On the other hand I own DVDs from 2010 that no longer play because of poor manufacturing quality.

Of course I can play the rips of them, but then it's effort to keep the data rotated through backups. Not a lot of effort, but still effort that most people don't want to do.

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