I remember that when CDs where a new technology, they were really 
reliable and expensive, I still have working CDs burned a decade ago. 
They started making the CDs and now DVDs fragile to avoid piracy, it has 
some sense since back-uped or pirated data will only last a few 
weeks/months and won't spread much, but it ain't much of success is more 
a detriment than benefit.

CD/DVDs are meant for mass storage, solid state storage for mobile 
storage. People needs mass storage, solid state is just too young to 
provide it at low cost still, software should be harder to copy/back-up, 
so only user data can be mass-storage easily, thus no need to make 
crappy media, everyone wins.

Cheers.

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