I encourage anyone with physical media to make digital backups right away in case the media becomes unreadable down the road.
Then the original media, readable or not, is just a physical license certificate that sits on a shelf.
In the case of blu-rays or DVDs be sure you rip them by simply doing analog MITM recording in a custom LCD controller just after the DRM decryption is done so you don't break DRM circumvention laws.
For sure avoid using any of the really good open source tools that can get you identical copies in a shorter period of time. That would be illegal.
I’ve known a few people that had all of their photos backed up on USB flash drives. Once their main drives eventually died they quickly leaned that flash drives have a limited unpowered shelf life. I’ve seen family members cry. I tell everyone to use a real cloud backup services, rather than a home grown backups that everyone forgets to refresh.
I encourage anyone with physical media to make digital backups right away in case the media becomes unreadable down the road.
Then the original media, readable or not, is just a physical license certificate that sits on a shelf.
In the case of blu-rays or DVDs be sure you rip them by simply doing analog MITM recording in a custom LCD controller just after the DRM decryption is done so you don't break DRM circumvention laws.
For sure avoid using any of the really good open source tools that can get you identical copies in a shorter period of time. That would be illegal.