There are at least 5 plausible reasons why the copyright
office thinks the
disk is blank:
- This is/was a CD-R. And since Kodak stopped
making
genuine Gold CD-R disks, only cheaper, less reliable
chemical
compositions are available. Thus the bits may have
literally faded away after
submission.
- This is/was a DVD, not a CD, but the copyright office
only tried it in a CD reader and thus found nothing.
- This is/was a
disk in a UNIX only format supported by
Solaris, but the copyright office only
tried it in a Windows
PC reader and thus found nothing.
- This is
obviously a data disk, but the copyright office
only tried it in an Audio or
Video disk player and thus
found nothing.
- Sun really sent them a
blank disk.
If the data was really there it may be up to 700
million
bytes (CD) or 4 to 8 billion bytes (DVD). Multiply by $1
per byte
and we are right back in silly numbers land.
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