gamera obscura: Every time this happens, we move closer to a world in which we own nothing, have nothing, control nothing - a world where every interaction with art is transactional, and that art is subject to deletion the moment it ceases to be profitable.

Every time this happens, we move closer to a world in which we own nothing, have nothing, control nothing - a world where every interaction with art is transactional, and that art is subject to deletion the moment it ceases to be profitable.

2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!" 2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons." latenighter.com/news/paramou...

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gonelatenighter.com One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.

Studios are absolutely going to be deleting old movies. It’s going to happen sooner rather than later.

also they launched that site not with just clips but with full episodes, u just put in a date and there was the ep, i shortsightedly deleted 80gb (a princely sum at the time) of my recorded daily show eps because of that

Entrusting a quarter century of internet culture to large corporations assuming they'd still exist was stupid. The corporations are slowly digest themselves chasing the tech fad of the fiscal year, those years will dissolve into a sort of digital dark age.

I'm too high

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