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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Horror_Ad1740 on 2025-07-29 12:20:08+00:00.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Flimsy_Tomatillo4874 on 2025-07-29 12:14:59+00:00.

I'm from Asia and working on my thesis alone. My research is focused on cinema marketing strategies in the Philippines, and I’m having a hard time gathering secondary data, especially financial data. I’ve already tried emailing several government agencies, but they told me the data isn't available.

I found what I need on Statista, but it requires a professional account. I really wish I had one right now 😭

If anyone could help me access this data, I’d be so grateful:

https://www.statista.com/outlook/amo/media/cinema/philippines

Thank you so much in advance. I can send my email if needed.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MarcellusDrum on 2025-07-29 11:35:42+00:00.

It took me a couple of years to find a disc of the game by reaching out to a guy on the developer team.

The game is protected by a custom DRM, he said it can only be decrypted by his own PC from 2007 (which he no longer has). I have his explicit permission to try and crack it, as even he no longer has a digital copy (and only 2 physical copies, he gave me one).

Trying to create an ISO took more than 6 hours to reach around 33%, and it got stuck there.

Any way to actually preserve this thing? It was never released digitally, and you can't even buy it anywhere as far as I know.

The game is Rodwan Operation. An FPS game released by Hezbollah about the Israeli/Lebanese war.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/7dsfalkd on 2025-07-29 11:25:29+00:00.

Some time ago, CMC changed the mixture of their MDISC BD-R's. The material was visually different, and the media ID's also changed. It generated some controversy, also here on reddit.

In order to find out about the reliability of these discs, I took two standard BD-R's (CMCMAGBA5), two MDISC BD-R's (VERBATIMe), and two DVD+R's (MCC 004), burned data on it (Pioneer BDR-UD03) and put them outside exposed to the elements for about four month.

The result was that the DVD+R's and standard BD-R's were literally physically destroyed, the carrier material just vanished.

The MDISC's looked better, but unfortunately none of them could be read anymore. The drive gave an error "unknown media".

That experiment really made me reconsider my backup strategy, and I cannot really trust optical media anymore. What are your thoughts/back strategies?

you can read more about the experiment including some picture here https://umij.wordpress.com/

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