Hacker News Reader

Exactly! With "digital copies" you don't even need to destroy them to render them useless. Just turn off the power!

Not only that, whose to say the program needed to read files from 1000 years ago are still available.

Huh? Hard drives, flash drives, and CD/DVD discs don't stop storing bits when you remove the power.

They don't stop storing bits but to make them useful there are a lot of prerequisites, unlike hard copies.

I agree with that but that isn't what you said in your original comment or maybe I misunderstood you.

You originally said "you don't even need to destroy them to render them useless. Just turn off the power!" I guess turning the lights off makes a book "useless".

Reply on news.ycombinator.com