OP likely found this through this YT video published today:
https://timharford.com/2023/11/cautionary-tales-laser-versus...
Which contrasted this with the Windrush scandal where the Home Office destroyed the legal documents of people welcomed from the Caribbean in the Sixties, and in their absence started to deport them.
Update: that is an excellent video, setting the context of the problem and walking through the fix. I doubt I would have found it.
This hardware is incredible. It's somewhat like the difference between RAW and JPG. We can properly rip LDs now.
I'm hoping he does vhs-decode too, it's far more accessible and potentially can bring the attention to more people as this also serves many's personal purposes of having a digital master of their home tapes (and not necessarily or exclusively preserving [no longer available] commercial media.