Sony Kills Recordable Blu-ray and Other Vintage Media

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Google kills their publicly facing cache, Internet Archive on the brink collapse, Recordable Media vanishing before our eyes.

I'm not claiming that theirs (sic) a concerted effort to control history. Just seems like another corporation repackaging their inconveniences and greed and selling them as conveniences to us.

And the cost? Dystopia.

Once confined to only the wildest parts of our imagination, now, inevitable.

Where are my Dark Enlightment Bros at?

It is a very rare person that sees the actual value of history. Mostly because it tells us stuff we don't want to hear.

We archiving.

Good time to reread A Canticle for Leibowitz

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