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RE: [dvd-discuss] Digital Media Lasts Forever? The RIAA's new weapon!
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- Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Digital Media Lasts Forever? The RIAA's new weapon!
- From: "Richard Hartman" <hartman(at)onetouch.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:34:15 -0800
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- Thread-topic: [dvd-discuss] Digital Media Lasts Forever? The RIAA's new weapon!
Oh boy. Now the terrorists will culture this stuff
instead of Anthrax and _really_ do us some damage!
--
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com
186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
> -----Original Message-----
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> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: [dvd-discuss] Digital Media Lasts Forever? The RIAA's new
> weapon!
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> http://www.nature.com/nsu/010628/010628-11.html
>
> "Fungus eats CD
>
> Spores bore holes in compact disks, rendering them useless.
> 27 June 2001
>
> XAVIER BOSCH
>
> <snip>
>
> "The team has isolated and cultured what they believe to
> be Geotrichum candidum. Usually, this fungus lives on
> plants and animals. Occasionally it infects the human
> respiratory tract. DNA analysis is pending.
>
> Burrowing in like worms from the side of the disk, "the
> fungus destroyed crucial information pits", says
> team-member Javier García-Guinea. "
>
>