Yes but what to convert it to and who will store it?<p>There should be a UN like international effort to set up
resources for storing digital media
(books, music, film, tv, games, journals, comics etc)
for the long term.<p>A few hundred years for sure.<p>All digital media made in the entire world and all that can be digitized
stored from the beginning until the end.
A constant accumulating treasure.<p>Doesn't have to be streaming, but there should be a way for
a person to request a copy. (if permissible by the copyright holder)<p>One thing that hurts me to think about are the hundreds of thousands
of books that you cant read.<p>The book has a small run, never republished, and for the most part
never to be seen again.
I wish each one was submitted to the above archive,<p>The copyright holder is making 0 by holding is hostage from people
reading it. Allowing people to read it thus would not lead to
less of revenue.<p>Perhaps a system of micropayments for still copyrighted but
will never be seen again media.<p>I say books because I love books, but movies, etc as well.
All of it.<p>I have started making a tiny effort myself by scanning and typesetting
book published by members of my family a ways back.<p>I know that Library of Congress has a lot of good stuff, but it only
collects fromt he US (I think)
In Norway Nasjoanlbiblioteket has a lot of stuff that is Norwegian.