RE: [dvd-discuss] Digital Media Lasts Forever? The RIAA's new weapon!

[Jack Oskay <joskay(at)ix.netcom.com>]

Biohazard stickers for CDs or a new terror level for a recording that has 
gone platinum?

People in the bio protection suits surrounding a house.  The suspect has 
all the Brittany Spears CDs which might be contaminated.  They confiscate 
them and burn them.

Well on second thought it might be for the better...
:)

At 02:34 PM 11/13/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>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-----
> > From: microlenz@earthlink.net [mailto:microlenz@earthlink.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:26 PM
> > To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> > Subject: [dvd-discuss] Digital Media Lasts Forever? The RIAA's new
> > weapon!
> >
> >
> > 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. "
> >
> >