DRM and the future...

Raise you hand if you have a backup of some sort that you can't restore because the software or hardware you used isn't available anymore (it took me more than a few years to restore a backup that had been made with CPBACKUP and a DAT drive)

I think it will be very interesting to see if those archival copies will be usable in the future... It's already hard enough with keeping around the right OS, the right drivers, the right reader - we now have to worry about the lock on the media itself.

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