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Disk rot issues in DVDs are a good reminder that the best thing you can do to your digital media is to copy it!

Copy protection schemes can be bypassed and you're protecting your investment.

Also remember that BluRay is a DRM technology and your media may not be playable on a BluRay player in the future, so copy your media now!

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0

An extreme example of a DVD with disc rot.
Ars Technica · “They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their casesBy Scharon Harding
#Diskrot#DRM#DVD

"#Amazon’s recent decision to stop allowing people to #download copies of their Kindle #ebooks to a computer has vindicated some of my longstanding beliefs about #digitalmedia. Specifically, that it doesn’t exist and you don’t own it unless you can copy and access it without being connected to the internet."

404media.co/the-digital-packra

404 Media · The Digital Packrat ManifestoDRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too.
#BREAKING NEWS: It's the Top 20 news website rankings in Australia for January! Massive thank you to the 7.96 MILLION Australians who read Guardian Australia last month 🙌👏

ABC surged back to No1 with +731k readers to reach 12.48m, as newscomau dropped to No2 on 11.76m after losing -413k readers in the month. Guardian Australia added +651k readers to hold 6th 💪 with 7.96m, 1.25m readers ahead of SMH at No7, who dropped -266k readers in January. And only 200k readers behind 7News in 5th! That's normally about a 2m audience gap.

DailyMail added +936k readers in January, on top of their +1.1m in December, to now be ranked No4, and up an astonishing 2m readers since they recorded 6.6m readers in November. That Nov measure had them 650k readers behind Guardian Australia and below us in the rankings at No7.

Huge months for SBS and BBC, with both adding more than 800k users in January to take top10 spots at the expense of The Age and NY Times. All NewsCorp properties in the Top20 lost audience, with newscomau -413k, The Australian -279k, SkyNewsOz -169k, Herald Sun -222k and DailyTele -377k

#audience #journalism #media #newspapers #journalists #digitalmedia #audiencedevelopment #audienceengagement #audiencegrowth #seo #newsproduct #auspol
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And, following the social convention here, we will start with an #introduction

We are a Research Centre at the #UniversityOfWarwick dedicated to expanding the role of interdisciplinary methods through new lines of inquiry that cut across disciplinary boundaries.

Besides being committed to excellent research, we also offer a #PhD Programme and 3 #interdisciplinary Master degrees on #bigData #DataVisualisations and #DigitalMedia and Culture

You can find us at warwick.ac.uk/cim

warwick.ac.ukCentre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM)The homepage for the Centre of Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, UK

[thread] post-truthism | "alternative facts"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-tru

Science is more than body of knowledge; it's a way of thinking.
I have a foreboding of an America ...
when people lost ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority ...
unable to distinguish between what feels good & what's true, we slide ...
back into superstition & darkness

-- Carl Sagan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-tru

"Despite the immense archiving capabilities of the internet, we’re living through an age of mass deletion, a moment when entertainment and media corporations see themselves not as custodians of valuable cultural history, once freely available, but as ruthless maximisers of profit. Those of us who believe in the historical value of accessing media from the past are paying the price."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existedBy Zach Schonfeld