There are plenty of ways to back up your data. So no more excuses.
My twins love cd-roms but don't know how to take care of them. They destroyed their prized copies of Dr. Seuss's ABCs and Arthur's Birthday, two discs that Broderbund's wizards made back in the 1990s. I tried polishing the CDs and largely failed. So I threw them away and burned myself new ones.
Copying CDs is an activity that most people associate with illegal music distribution and downloading. But there's nothing wrong, morally or even legally, with making backup copies of my own CD-ROMs for my own use -- provided that I don't start sharing those backups with all of my friends.
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