Well, its happened to me again. I saved a bunch of program updates and other stuff I wanted to backup on a CD, which is how I always store/backup my stuff...including all the free downloads, and all my purchased items from here, DAZ, RDNA, etc etc.... This particular CD was burned on 1 November 2000, so a bit ago... slapped that baby into my CD to find an update for an older program..and ERROR: The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable. So, all that stuff is history. Now, 1 CD isn't too bad, but this isn't the first...including some fairly recent burns...I lost most of my P4 stuff purchased form DAZ as well...a very expensive loss.... What the hell is going on with these CDs...how long should they last? Why are they becoming corrupted? Can I sue someone to regain my lost products? ( I'm almost seriously thinking about a class action suit or something...these things are supposed to be used for backup).

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Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854