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IN A MUSEUMON MY HARDRIVEI was thinking Internet Archive, but either works.
SO DO YOU!
Throw him over the side.
“.……no ticket!”
It’s conservation. Archeology is digging up what was once lost.
So finding a lost video game is archeology. Keeping it safe is conservation.
Ensuring games can’t be lost in the first place and that they continue to work in the future is preservation.All needed, but different things.
Ok, truth, but I will still call it preventive archeology…
Most here are just talking about one form of media, why not include video games like “Black and White” made by Lion Head Studios and not sold anywhere, but can only be found on archive sites for dead games. Edit: if you want to find these abandon games the site that I use is My Abandonware
I do think I’m going to start a retro game ROM collection in general. I have a sizable physical collection already, but there are just so many that aren’t easily available anymore.
I’m STILL waiting for a sequel to B&W2
I finally got around to hosting a JellyFinn server and there’s a number of useful programs you can use to get your movies off DVD and Blu ray. MakeMKV and HandBrake my beloved programs
I’ve been using Handbrake to rip DVDs but haven’t started using MakeMKV yet. I do have a number of blu-rays that Handbrake can’t seem to process on its own.
I can vouch for MakeMKV as well.
I had so much frustration trying to rip Blu-Rays other ways. Did the free trial and got my whole library ripped pretty cleanly and easily. Eventually decided to buy the software so I wouldn’t have to keep looking up and entering the trial key. There’s not much higher of a commendation I can give than to say that I decided to give them $60 I didn’t have to because it was good.
Lol call me the British museum
xD
An archaeologist is just a thief with patience
-River Song
All media will eventually not be sold any more…
Song of the South. Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Bear, etc.
A Disney movie that Disney doesn’t want anyone to remember because of the inherent racism. Using stories that originated during slavery, but setting the movie after the war to try to take the curse off.
It’s damn near impossible to get in the U.S., but easy to access via the high seas, and Disney uncharacteristically won’t go after you for it, because they don’t want to draw attention to it.
It incorporated some innovative techniques for blending live action with animation and has some value in terms of history of cinema. I don’t think it should disappear completely, but I do think it’s important to view it critically.
Personally, I found that apart from the racism, a lot of the writing and acting in the live action sequences was so absolutely terrible it was painful to watch.
I love being the only seeder for something only for the fact I can share it. The problem is, more people should be seeding it as well to preserve history.
Currently digging up and preserving an old French movie for future generations. It’s slow-going ATM, but I’m making steady progress.
Realistically, I don’t think anyone would come after you anyway. It is de facto legal. I’d say in the name of pragmatism, we don’t really need a legal framework around it.
In most cases, probably. And then there’s Nintendo.
I was just coming here to say Nintendo. They did eventually pull some titles back into rotation with vintage gaming devices and versions for modern equipment, but plenty of games have never been touched again, and they still insist it’s illegal to ROM them. Fuck that I am doing my usual Crystalis playthrough every couple years like always…
Ah! So I’m a pirate and an archeologist. Nice!
Once it’s a ruin I can legally loot it…
Heres my favorite contraband:
What are some examples of some TV shows that you can no longer stream or buy?
The first that came to mind are episodes that have been removed from circulation, like the Pokemon episode with Porygon, or the It’s Always Sunny Lethal Weapon episodes, or that first DnD episode from Community.
From a quick search, there are a bunch that are stuck in weird legal limbo: The Drew Carey Show, Dogma, Tales from the Crypt.
Someone also mentioned Song of the South being pulled by Disney. Ooh, or the original Star Wars films from before they were edited. There are also probably a ton of not well known older films that would benefit from being preserved.
Any idea what happened with Dogma? Obviously ruffled many feathers at the time it was released, but I’d hope it’s not in danger of becoming a lost film. Just to make sure, I better go torrent it today.
I’ve actually never seen it before, it was just one of the top examples when I searched.
Looking it up now, you’re not going to believe this, but it’s because of Harvey Weinstein personally holding the film rights hostage. Somehow after a license expired, the film rights reverted to him, and he offered to sell it back to Kevin Smith at some unreasonable price that Smith didn’t want to pay. It sounds pretty ethical to torrent at this point.
Thanks for the info. Too bad Weinstein ever had anything to do with Hollywood….or humanity for that matter.
I could be wrong, but I’m thinking that Kevin Smith wouldn’t even mind having his films torrented.
I tried to find the show @midnight for a long time, and comedy central would have a rotating section of episodes, but never the whole series…it was my white whale for a while
If you know how to use BitTorrent, the entire show is out there for grabs!
I had every single episode a few years ago, took me ages to track them all down. Then I lost them all during a storage upgrade… But when the new After Midnight show started up, some kind soul uploaded a torrent of the entire @midnight archive.👍
Yeap! Noticed I said “was” ;-) I manged to find the whole thing, have it backed up on multiple drives, and try to seed as much as possible. Side note, After Midnight is no where near as good of a show, sadly.
Agreed… it took me a while to warm up to new new show while they figured out what they were doing. After a few months I began to enjoy it for what it was… It could never touch the original, but it had some of that same spirit of ridiculousness. The 2nd season was better, but that’s all we got. Hardwick seriously needs to start up @m again!
