What’s sad is we HAD that in original Netflix. Then the studios got greedyaf and now we are back to, basically, cable. I’m not saying Netflix isn’t at a huge fault here (that 720p during covid was some real bs) but the beginning of this disaster is squarely on the shoulders of all the studios wanting their share of the pie plus more.
Image description: a screenshot from the Wikipedia page for the Doctor Who TV series, with a user-added caption that reads “Preserve the media you can before it’s gone forever.” The Wikipedia article reads, “No 1960s episodes exist on their original videotapes (all surviving prints being film transfers), though some were...
Just the thought of it makes me ill. I don’t get it. Even before my two daughters were born it was pretty gross and I got why they were shanked all the time in prison but once I had them… it went to disgust and the possibility of jail time if someone did anything like that to them.
Here is the suck… there HAS to be an archive of it to be used to help save kids, identify locations, get other clues, etc… Without an archive, it would be near impossible to do anything.
For a small glimpse of that fucked shit and why an archive is needed, check out a yt vid called Mr Swirl: The Internet’s Most Disturbed User. It’s not even a vid on why archiving is good, it’s just a vid on how they got this shitheel but proves my point.
[Louis Rossmann] Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix and remembers why (odysee.com)
Piracy is Preservation (feddit.de)
Image description: a screenshot from the Wikipedia page for the Doctor Who TV series, with a user-added caption that reads “Preserve the media you can before it’s gone forever.” The Wikipedia article reads, “No 1960s episodes exist on their original videotapes (all surviving prints being film transfers), though some were...