Alright so I'm both a physical media freak and a data hoarder, and I generally want to get into making my own torrents of very, very niche movies and TV shows. Trouble is, one BD is very flimsy and data can be even flimsier. I want to duplicate my BluRays and burn them onto other BluRay discs but I've heard that this generally makes the duplicate unreadable because of copy protection.

Is there any specific guide out there that does this or teaches it? I'm not really planning on becoming a bootlegger but a sneakernet of 50-100 disks in boxes is a hell of a lot less startup cost than LTO or even HDDs

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This doesn't make sense. You can't seed a torrent from a Blu-ray. I mean technically you could, but you'd only be able to do one per drive at a time.

And the storage density of a drive is much higher than a Blu-ray disc. You can fit far more movies on one hard drive.

Also keep in mind that burned discs have a much shorter lifespan than commercially pressed discs, like 10-30 years. Commercial pressed discs should last 100+.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 2 points 1 week ago

m-discs have a conservative lifespan of 100 years