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Originally Posted by Bremen Cole
Your DRM free digital song will play fine in 20 years,. A silly piece of plastic...... not so much....
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A CD-ROM (not CD-R) has a very long lifespan. Moreover, there is no physical wear on the playing surface, warping is only a result of external physical forces (i.e. sitting on them) and oxidisation is only an issue for CD-R's, not CD-ROM's
All you need to read a CD is a spin mechanism and a laser. Comparing them with older mechanisms which suffer from a great number of issues stable optical media don't is simply inaccurate.
You may believe they're obsolete from a philosophical perspective, but from a technical one...