How were masters protected before digital?
Few pros record 44.1/16bit (store-bought CD) any more
and who would downsample their masters for archiving
(and what about all the multitracks)? The "literally dozens"
of other media is the problem -- which one to bet on for
a hundred years' time?
The belief that the formats of current digital recordings will unplayable in
100 years' time -- or 100,000 years' -- is absurd.
The ability to _read_ digital media is a different issue. Players tend to be
reverse-compatible, so barring a major technology change that causes all
disk players to become obsolete, there should be no problem.
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