I agree, i'm a passionate photographer and i could pay good money to know that my pictures could be seen long time after my death.
Maybe startups exists that do this, but they will die, i need something with enough critical mass that i can trust.
That doesn't address the concern re: something needing critical mass to increase its chance of survival over a longer term.
Really the way I see it outside a few large banking firms, its kind of hard to be sure any provider of digital services would be around in the 50+ year term for this kind of public archive.
I hope the Internet Archive manages it.
EDIT: I do worry the IA has a bit of a lightning rod effect with skirting issues re: legality of archiving content. IMO its no guarantee it survives any significant time span either.
osigurdson|4 years ago
boarnoah|4 years ago
Really the way I see it outside a few large banking firms, its kind of hard to be sure any provider of digital services would be around in the 50+ year term for this kind of public archive.
I hope the Internet Archive manages it.
EDIT: I do worry the IA has a bit of a lightning rod effect with skirting issues re: legality of archiving content. IMO its no guarantee it survives any significant time span either.