Recently I heard about the storage technology known as M-DISC, a write-once optical format that claims to withstand extreme temperatures and oxidization, providing safe storage of data for up to 1,000 years. This sounds good, but is any of it true? What is M-DISC? Developer Millenniata claims that M-DISC uses a “glassy carbon” data layer […]
Sermon: Why DRM Is Bad Like many people you own an Amazon Kindle device for reading e-books. And like many companies that trade in digital intellectual property, Amazon includes digital rights management (DRM) software in their e-books. The stated purpose is to prevent piracy, and for that DRM is modestly effective. But DRM also inconveniences […]