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 transferred to film for editing before transmission and exist in their broadcast form. [88] Some episodes have been returned to the BBC from the archives of other countries that bought prints for broadcast or by private individuals who acquired them by various means. Early colour videotape recordings made off-air by fans have also been retrieved, as well as excerpts filmed from the television screen onto 8 mm cine film and clips that were shown on other programmes. Audio versions of all lost episodes exist from home viewers who made tape recordings of the show. Short clips from every story with the exception of Marco Polo (1964), “Mission to the Unknown” (1965) and The Massacre (1966) also exist.”

  • ASeriesOfPoorChoices
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    8 months ago

    * rolls eyes in r/datahorder *

    On a related topic fck torrents. They are the worst for long-term piracy. I’m trying to find old and rare shows that were uploaded over a decade ago, and everything is dead.

    Bring back the mule!! The fact I can share things without needing to care about their changing name and location is fantastic. It’s so empty now, compared to 15-20 years ago :(

    I’m going to have to look into newsgroup (EDIT: usenet, I mean) stuff again soon. Or IRC. Money or effort. :(

    • @[email protected]
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      118 months ago

      Usenet is worth it. More selection, no hoping that someone is out there seeding, and the quality is almost always much better.

    • Takatakatakatakatak
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      108 months ago

      Newsgroups are bloody horrific unless you are picking things up the very second that they’re released.

      Everything gets DMCA takedown strikes extremely quickly and goes missing. You might get lucky and put it together with repair files etc but I have all but given up on it. You need a lightning fast connection and radarr/ sonarr set up to grab things you MIGHT be interested in automatically or it’s a total wash.

    • @u_tamtam
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      28 months ago

      I do hope that the new torrent protocol will help with that, especially for “compilations of stuff” (e.g series, episodes, starring XYZ, …): as I understand it, seeding will become a global file-level thing that can cross torrent boundaries. The new trend of seeding and referencing over I2P might help with keeping the old stuff afloat too.