What's the best way to make sure cartoons/comics/fanart exists for hundreds of years...

What's the best way to make sure cartoons/comics/fanart exists for hundreds of years? With harddrives not lasting too long before they break down and companies not giving a shit about their own works it's becoming harder to archive everything

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>cartoons/comics/fanart exists for hundreds of years?
They won't be able to distinguish between legitimate cartoons/comics and their porn fanart that far in the future

The cloud/internet is the best way. For decades, long before the cloud, I've backed my documents up to my email which has saved me many a time.

Keep them online and in your own hard drives. Because with online it increases the chance other hoarders save the data. Your own hard drives can get flooded, taken by fbi, electrecuted by power surges, you yourself lose the ability to maintain your lifestyle etc. Etc.

Look into creating a raid array, when one drive starts to fail replace it immediately and you won't lose anything.

Meant to reply to OP my bad

Question, if I put torrented Mp4s on an M-disc marked "Blu-ray" or "DVD" can a normal Blu-ray/DVD player still read it like a regular burned movie? I want to get into M-disc autism.

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On an enthusiast level, with how often people build new PCs nowadays, I think if people just transfer backup files to new hard-drives every few years that'll be fine.

Also, Blu-rays are resistant to disc rot compared to DVDs and Laserdiscs, and in theory if you take care of them properly they'll last for a LONG time (at least from what I've read online).

However, I think it's worth accepting the fact that not all media is going to last that long. As cool as finding and archiving lost media is, so much of it is worthless compared to actual things worth being archived. Finding the lost MTV video mods was kind of cool, but is that art REALLY worth archiving?

You will never be able to "archive everything".

Think of how much artwork has been lost from past civilizations. Even 75% of movies from the silent era have been completely lost and destroyed and they were only made a hundred years ago. Art is temporary. I think the most people can realistically do is just hold on to the things they care about for as long as they can.

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I mean you aren't "wrong" but I'd rather be on the side of over-preserving than on the side of under-preserving.
Only thing I am kindof worried about is a large-term solution to the Nintendo Switch, I have a lot of physical games for that thing and I'm not so sure about the longevity of the console itself.
Same goes for gamecube discs, but at least those are easy as hell to emulate/pirate

If you're really serious about it, I guess LTO tape. The tape itself is cheap, but the read/write units are not.

So the best bet is to store favorite entertainment on hard drives and blue-rays? It started to worry me with the advent of the woke censorship of movies and video games.

Ah that makes sense, I can see the argument for over-preserving.

As for the Switch, yeah that could be a problem, but people are emulating Switch games on Steam Deck already so there's hope. It's the digital video games I'd be most concerned with. The eShop is shutting down soon on WiiU and 3DS and there are probably some digital-only hidden gems that aren't archived yet.

To inject a bit of hope, (and to swing it back to Any Forums territory), at least modern shows and comics are released digitally, so preserving them should be easier than tracking down old physical comics and VHS-era cartoons that needs to be digitized. I think lots of what needs to be preserved in terms of Any Forums stuff from the olden days is already pretty secure, actually.

I can't remember the name of it, but there is a battery/power-bank you can plug you PC into just in-case of brown-outs.
Would that solve the power surge problem?
Also, what about SSD's as a storage option? Worse than HDD's?

HDD drives are built with discs that deteriorate gradually over years. The discs spin to retrieve data points stored onto them, and once rot has come for it, it'll damage the files, resulting with fragments and artifacting.

SSD's on the other hand are built to process and fetch files faster and lossless through flash memory instead of using physical disk reader properties, hence why they're so small and sleek.
The problem with SSD's is that they have a short lifespan, and overuse can lead to faulty chip compromising the entire storage unit.

If you want your media stored somewhere safe without using the internet, a customized local server would be an option.
Everything we call cloud-based or a cloud solution is a remote company server located elsewhere, hosting content. Same thing could be done at home if you know someone tech savvy or you learn to build one yourself.
Sure, you'll be in charge of server maintenance and operation, but you'll be in control over what's on it at all time.

What's going to be interesting to see in the future, will be the evolution of small, tight-knit groups using platforms like Discord to host private, invite-only servers that acts as a two-step process to share and distribute torrents and mega links.
It's hypothetically possible, but that takes a lot of wishful thinking by overlooking the TOS and copyright violations for establishing hubs like that, though I'd like to imagine some preservationists would argue the benefit for old works not being lost.

I know a guy who've given zero shits about Discord and Tencent, and just dumped all his shit onto a private server where he's the sole member, because "the cloud was there".

At the end of the day, your outlook of the consumer mindset is the more grounded one, and we ought to keep what we have for as long as we want. In some sense, what archiving and preservation at the core is (admittedly or not) is to self-serve the memories we have with the media.

>Grugson is artist but wastes talent making furgrugs.Grug am concerned.

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>archeologists trying to sift through the thousands of shitposts signed "Ben Garrison" to the point that they aren't even sure if he is even real, like Socrates

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Thanks for explanation.

Wait until they think Mickey Mouse was a porn character

When are they going to finish 5D optical data storage, its not Sci-fi they've built prototypes and it can last literally a 1000 years