ImageDisk project is canceled - real backups are needed

[woodelf]

Tony Duell wrote:

>There are now presumably a number of disks archived in Imagedisk format 
>that cannot (legally) be read. Great!. This is no better than teledisk. 
>It has convinced me even more that the only tools I will use to archive 
>disks are open-source ones, because that's the only way I can be sure 
>that the author won't throw a hissy fit for whatever reason and make the 
>archives useless.
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But could they be legally read in the first place? It seems with all 
this talk of copywright
only using the OS supplied by the disk's in the first place is it legal. 
I think the best way to
archive the disks of any format  is to keep the orginal  hardware  and 
media  working.
 

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