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“It’s a Silent Fire”: Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2024
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Backup often and check the backups.
Backup often.
Backup often.
Use an open format. For extra sure, make sure it doesn't carry DRM.
Uuuuh don't be corrupt?
Like, really, it's not like one's asking too much.
Some executive somewhere:
That costs $
That costs $
That costs $
That costs $ (Probably, I'd ask IT but we laid them off as a cost reduction so meh )
That costs $
They can just use Hollywood Accounting, no problem!
Some of that could also be incompetence.
What was it again? “Don’t attribute to malice when it can be attributed to stupidity” something something?
Hanlon’s Razor
A friend has a corollary for that: "Don't attribute to stupidity when it can be attributed to capitalism".