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Person at the end of the article is missing the point because they don’t understand that bitflips and other corruption can happen with digital storage.



An archival quality format can take this into account with error correction data and logic. Nothing says you have to use the common formats (which may be more vulnerable to data corruption) for the archives.


it's exceedingly rare. Rarer even than the usual numbers thrown around imo




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