Let's say you had an insane amount of bookmarks (or something precious like it). Would you pay to have DVDs burned and sent to you?
It seems like a convenient re-assurance for users to get DVD backups mailed to them every so often -- but it would be a total pain to support this as a small business...
A burned DVD full of bookmarks is, indeed, an insane amount of data.
At about, say, 2K per bookmark, that's a couple million bookmarks. If one bookmarks a site every 60 seconds, 24x7 that's about 4 years of work. A slightly more reasonable person, bookmarking every 60 seconds for only 8 hours a day, would have to be bookmarking websites continuously since about 1996 to fill up a DVD.
I understand, I am more responding to the preciousness and non-replaceability of it, the actual application for this I have in mind is not for bookmarks :-)
I don't know if I'd pay for just my list of bookmarks (I don't have that many), but I might pay for a monthly DVD archive of the site's content for all of my bookmarks, plus a searchable index. I hate when I can't find a bookmark, or a bookmark has gone offline.
I am of course talking about something much harder. With big file sizes, the likelihood that users will regularly (much less in an automated way) download their own backups decreases.
It seems like a convenient re-assurance for users to get DVD backups mailed to them every so often -- but it would be a total pain to support this as a small business...