Tag: Data storage device
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History of Recording
Nice short (if a little shallow) video about the history of recording ourselves. Scary that it’s heading for 88.4 Exabytes per month – something near to 1 Trillion pictures taken a year, and the fact that every two minutes, people take as many pictures as taken throughout the 19th century. And about 10% of the…
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Why losing the battle to rip CDs is bad
Just heard the news that the recently gained right in the UK for people to rip CDs for personal use (which most people thought was legal anyway) has been overturned. Although I doubt this will stop anyone from doing it, it’s bad for several reasons – the first being that “they suggested that a tax…