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>Once you're old you almost certainly won't be using modern software and file formats. Accessing your data will be incredibly inconvenient

This isn't true. Sure, no one uses WMV or ZOO these days, but you can still get tools to read them. But those were also not-so-popular formats/codecs that were replaced quickly by better stuff. MP3 is also old, but still very ubiquitous. Furthermore, the specs and software for modern file formats (like audio/video codecs) are all publicly available. People will still be able to read h.264 videos 50 years from now, don't worry.

It's not going to be like the Domesday Book.



Yes, it's actually incredibly easy, if not always convenient, to read most of these old formats.


> But those were also not-so-popular formats/codecs that were replaced quickly by better stuff.

Yes, but nobody said "let's get back and reencode everything in a new, better format"




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