Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

[John Foust]

At 08:22 PM 8/10/2004, Teo Zenios wrote:
>Here is an example of a society that preserves media on the Amiga platform
>(complete images including the copy protection as used by the developer).
>http://www.caps-project.org/
>They have spent allot of time deciphering custom disk formats and saving all
>of the information digitally so it can be reproduced exactly at a later
>date.

Astounding!  Will that computer never die?  And I say that 
as someone who Believed, '85-92.

I'm tempted to say that we should leave copy protection
hacks out of the spec for now, but if it was extensible,
that would be great.

- John