“You've already got a DVD. It lasts forever. It never wears out. In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless.”

—  Jack Valenti

Responding to a question on breaking encryption to make a back-up copy of a DVD.
Interview in Harvard Political Review (2002)

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