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Library of Congress now says that there is no data on the disk.
Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 08:16 PM EDT
I've had customers ask for information they had no idea how to use and sent them
blank disks as a test.

I never got a callback. Of course if I had I would have apologized and sent a
new corrected disk right away.

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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.

"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk

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Library of Congress now says that there is no data on the disk.
Authored by: greed on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 01:31 AM EDT
I've had quite a number of early DVD-Rs, and even some DVD+Rs, fail utterly.
The resulting failure mode results in drives reporting "NO MEDIA".

I tried every drive I have to read them back, from old RPC-1 DVD-ROMs right
through to BD burners, with the same results.

I've had CD-RWs and DVD-RWs fail visibly: you can see a "splotch" in
the dyes from the recording side. And, sure enough, such discs could no longer
be read back or even erased.

I've also had pressed DVD-Video discs fail; about 70 out of 1400. Including the
original release of the James Bond films, and the original release of Kentucky
Fried Movie. (Mmmmm... cheesy!) All those failures were "laser-rot":
I had watched every single one when I'd first bought them.

CD-Rs have been somewhat more reliable.

Heck, I've got a couple of bad CD-DAs, but I think those were defective
pressings.

Digital archiving has to be an active process; you can't stick the recording
media in a vault and hope.

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Is the Library the official store for the copyright office?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 09:07 AM EDT
The copyright office is part of the Library of Congress. Among the duties of the
Librarian of Congress is the duty to receive copyright registration requests and
to issue copyright registrations, The copyright office was formed as a part of
the Library of Congress in order for the Librarian of Congress to fulfill these
duties

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