They, of course, have plenty of power if they actually tried to use it their own way.
This long-term facilitator of power could simply contact the media and start making waves themselves and could join the protests doing their own social media campaign, etc. Basically, make them fire them for doing what their job supposedly does and suggesting an alternative.
This person is just saying, "that's enough for me" and bolting, presumably to go retire.
You can burn em with your burner of course. I haven't burned discs in so long that I can't remember what software I used to use, but there should still be open source, free software that can do exactly that.
If long-term, secure storage is your goal I'd go with redundant, error-correcting digital storage with off-site encrypted backups (don't forget the password!). A proper system like that will survive a tornado (because it's backed up off-site). A home-built RAIDZ2 NAS with one of many off-site backups will work very well. If you don't want to figure out how to build that system, you can also just buy a NAS with a similar level of functionality (I do still recommend RAIDZ2 with at least 6 disks, though).
Blu-rays will eventually degrade, either from scratches or a slow phenomenon where they get little holes in the foil. Even if you keep making copies, you'll run into this problem. Of course, data corruption can also occur for files on a computer, but that's why you use a strategy that keeps ~3 copies of each file around (basically what RAIDZ2 accomplishes) so that errors can be auto-corrected.
There are other benefits to a NAS as well. You can store your own backups of your other devices there as well and have them backed up off-site. You also have the option to share your blu-ray rips over your home network, basically running your own local streaming service.
If you want to share the love, so to speak, the bandwidth of a USB hard drive is actually pretty great.
If it's a desktop/laptop, I recommend Pika, which is just a nice frontend and scheduler for borg backup. If it's a server, I recommend borgmatic.
The nice thing about borg is that it does all of the things people usually want from backups but that are kind of frustrating to do with scripts:
Encryption so they're private and can be uploaded to cloud storage safely.
Compression so they aren't too big.
Uses snapshots with deduplication so that they don't take up too much space.
Snapshots happen on a schedule.
There's a retention policy of how many snapshots to keep and at what interval (1 snapshot per year for the last 4 years and 1 per month for 12 months, for example).
You can browse through old snapshots to retrieve files.
You can restore from a snapshot.
Ignore certain files, directories, and patterns.
It is surprisingly difficult to get all of that in one solution, but borg things will do all of the above.
It's the audio framework behind most modern Linux systems nowadays. It performs much better than previous ones and provides greater consistency and expectations for end users. Basically... if you've ever been frustrated by audio configuration on Linux, this project is probably working on fixing it.
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That's awesome. I enjoy doing this kind of stuff if you have a backlog and want someone to convert a few books I'm happy to help.