krj
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response 25 of 27:
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Oct 24 18:49 UTC 2000 |
To get back to the theft/backup issue... how do you protect the CDs in
your home? A theft loss from a car is probably going to be limited to
15-20 CDs at worst... but your home, a thief could clean it out pretty
well... or what if your house burned down?
Paranoia runs rampant.
In October 1982 I was quite thoroughly cleaned out in a home burglary;
the thieves must have used a truck or something, because they took nearly
every piece of electronics in the house, including an old radio-cassette
portable which rattled when you shook it, and whose tape section had not
worked for over a decade. However, they didn't touch the LP collection.
I assume the fencable-value/weight ratio of LPs is pretty low.
I've been nervous ever since the recordings became objects worth
stealing as we moved into the CD era.
(What if someone steals your PC with all your MP3s on the hard disk?)
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mcnally
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response 26 of 27:
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Oct 24 20:33 UTC 2000 |
I've always assumed my CD collection long ago left the easily portable /
easily fencable danger zone for theft, but it would indeed be a tremendous
blow if someone walked off with my whole collection. Homeowner's/renter's
insurance would replace much of it without too much additional hassle and
many of my irreplacable discs are already duplicated so the thieves would
have to get both copies, but that's not too farfetched; if they're in my
house long enough to carry off my entire collection, they've got plenty of
time to ransack thoroughly..
Bottom line, you can't protect everything, but I think items in the car are
much more at risk. Perhaps I just think that because the only time I've
ever had any CDs stolen (during the infamous trunking incident) it was a
small stack (about a dozen) from my car and it took three years before I
could replace two of the items taken, and only then because I was lucky
enough to have a used copy of one show up in Encore..
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