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Why Microsoft and Warner Bros. Archived the Original 'Superman' Movie on a Futuristic Glass Disc
Microsoft has teamed up with Warner Bros. to store a copy of the 1978 movie "Superman" on a small glass disc about the size of a coaster. The collaboration, which will be officially unveiled at Microsoft's Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, Florida Monday, is a first test case for a new storage technology that could eventually help safeguard Hollywood's movies and TV shows, as well as many other forms of data, for centuries to come.
"Glass has a very, very long lifetime," said Microsoft Research principal researcher Ant Rowstron in a recent conversation with Variety. "Thousands of years."
[Image] The piece of silica glass storing the 1978 "Superman" movie, measuring 7.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 2 mm. The glass contains 75.6 GB of data plus error redundancy codes.
Microsoft began to investigate glass as a storage medium in 2016 in partnership with the University of Southampton Optoelectonics Research Centre. The goal of these efforts, dubbed "Project Silica," is to find a new storage medium optimized for what industry insiders like to call cold data — the type of data you likely won't need to access for months, years, or even decades. It's data that doesn't need to sit on a server, ready to be used 24/7, but that is kept in a vault, away from anything that could corrupt it.
This is not the Superman memory crystal we need.
Also at The Verge.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by acid andy on Wednesday November 06 2019, @08:55PM (4 children)
Pity the video games won't work in thousands of years' time because the servers needed for the always-on authentication DRM will no longer exist; unless of course the corporations
are charitable enoughconsider it profitable to encode the servers on glass as well or go DRM-free.If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday November 06 2019, @09:02PM (1 child)
You just store the cracked version:
https://www.geek.com/games/diablo-iii-offline-play-crack-released-in-beta-form-1500569/ [geek.com]
https://www.techspot.com/news/80084-denuvo-protected-games-cracked-faster-than-ever.html [techspot.com]
If no crack, you consider it lost to history.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday November 07 2019, @01:04AM
You just store the cracked version
BOO! That was horrible!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 07 2019, @08:52AM
Would’t it be Hound Dog Gay?
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Thursday November 07 2019, @02:34PM
The lack of DRM servers is irrelevant. Microsoft will have changed the file format hundeds of times by then without back-compatability. That's even if the world hasn't become like H G Wells depicted in The Time Machine and nobody cares.