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benoliver999  ·  3457 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Inside an African MP3 market

Maybe yeah. What worries me a bit is that, apart from on the internet, I don't see many people who know the difference between lossy and lossless formats (for example). That, and the implication they have going forwards.

That said, it's a WHOLE load more people that what we had in Lomax's time, so that's something. Plus, the technology and information to do it 'properly' is cheaply and readily available.

In fact, there are whole groups of people devoted to preserving out digital history.





user-inactivated  ·  3457 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think we'll eventually reach a time where both communication speeds and storage medium becomes so cheap, we won't see a need for lossy formats anymore.