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Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Corporations will never offer such archives, as they're a money losing proposition. In some cases IP and copyright law is even such that content can't be realistically archived and provided.

[–] PoliticalCustard@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think the same. Good news for piracy... but sad that people will have to rely on trackers that can disappear at any time and without warning. Mind you copyright does expire... but I have no idea how that would work. Project Gutenberg for media with large file sizes would be expensive to run... but then storage may continue to get cheaper. But yeah, it won't be a corporate that will be offering a solution.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Copyright expires long after unprofitable content has been all but lost forever, something like 100 years after the death of the original creator. It used to be a far shorter period, but US corporations with big profitable IP holdings keep bribing lawmakers to extend it, and force its enforcement outside of the US as well. The concept of being able to sell copyrights is also quite silly if you ask me.

So unfortunate Gutenberg and similar libraries can only have really old stuff as things stand.