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On the day that Sundance kicked off and Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy, the Motion Picture Academy threw a bucket of ice water on the digital filmmaking revolution.

Preserving movies is an ongoing issue for the entire industry, but a new report from the Academy warns that movies shot or finished digitally face a lifespan so short they can be lost even before they get distribution. Worse, indie and docu filmmakers, whose work is most vulnerable to this risk, seem oblivious to the danger.Those grim conclusions, found in the long-awaited Part Two of the Acad’s Science & Technology Council “Digital Dilemma” report on the problems of digital preservation, will likely make for some somber chatter in Park City.

» via Variety

I wonder if and how the researchers looked at the way that distributed networking, as facilitated by the internet, effects preservation. It seems to me that if data makes its way on to enough hard drives around the world the better chances it will have for preservation. Brewster Kahle at The Internet Archive talks and writes a lot about this point.