Hugh,

As you and I both know there are many types of insurance products, many of 
which may be held by vendors.

What you were proposing a few posts ago was that vendors insure media 
contents against loss. Your rationale behind vendors carrying this 
insurance was for it to be punitive, that is to punish them for the loss 
so that they would be more careful in future.

Or did I misread your post?

If as you say there are enforced laws that would result in actions against 
vendors who lose tapes, what additional effect would passing on the cost 
of an expensive insurance policy have?

So that we are clear about what we are talking about here, I asked around 
and one vendor was quoted $25,000 for a $10,000,000 policy on a small 
number of tapes.

As for the technologies employed by vaults to track tapes, these do not 
change all that much in reality. Most interest in these technologies comes 
from vendors who already have the best products.

Any interest from lesser vendors in these new technologies usually 
disappears when they discover that spending $100K on an RFID solution is 
no fix for the fact that their staff earn minimum wage and their vault is 
constructed of drywall, boiler insulation and chicken wire.

Gerard

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