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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by LoganDark on Monday March 10, 2025 @11:47PM (#43328975)
You know tech savvy was not really a thing back then for the everyday uneducated person, right? You kind of had to have been a geek to have known this stuff. There are a number of dead-simple cloud solutions today, but you cannot just scold, say, WB for not using a company cloud back in checks Wikipedia 1993!
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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by mulmen on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @12:54PM (#43334494)
Ok but preserving media seems like a thing Warner Brothers should be really good at. Why did Warner Brothers have an everyday uneducated person in charge of archival?
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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by LoganDark on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @02:59PM (#43335867)
Why would an archivist back then happen to know computers that intimately? I'd be surprised if the average archivist knew much more than how to do data entry... and I wouldn't even hold it against them if they happened not to know how to do data entry.
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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by mulmen on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @01:08AM (#43340127)
You don't need to be an expert in the technology to ask a few relevant questions like "where is the information stored?" and "what temperature and humidity does it prefer?" Of course WB is famously bad at storing film too so maybe I shouldn't be surprised.
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