That CD is probably unreadable by now, unless you used a disc made specifically for storage and it has been stored in a climate controlled storage space. They lose out quite quickly.
+1. The OP should use a different storage media if the goal is to keep the data available after years. I speak for personal experience having lost dozens of CDs and DVDs, and I mean branded discs properly burned and verified. Burned Optical media becomes unreadable after a few years, sometimes showing first signs of failure afer only 3 years or less. That convinced me years ago to abandon completely their use in favor of hard drives which I swap every N years to keep up with the advancement of interfaces.
Anyway, M-Discs are a recent development in the optical media field promising 1000 years of reliability, but of course nobody will be able to test that claim anytime soon.
http://www.mdisc.com/
I should check it. I haven't spoken to that lawyer in nearly a decade now.
But I guess this is the crux of my issue with a service like Codekeeper. The timelines could be WELL over what we initially estimate.
For the particular programming project I mentioned above, I only expected the code to be in escrow for about 3 to 5 years max. Never in my wildest dreams would I have envisaged my client using my software for 20+ years to drive their business! Had I known that in advance, I would have put in place some other form of long term storage.
As it happens - all that code is now on my BitBucket account as well as other offsite backups, but I am thinking having a unique read key and having that stored with my lawyer may be a better bet. If CodeKeeper was in the $100/year range, then I could conceivably charge my customers a fixed 'holding fee' to store it with them. But the Catch22 is that they probably need more revenue in order to stay in business longer, and I need a business that will stick around for the long term so that I can entrust my code to them. Ironic.
