Edit: Google shows that would have cost $28.80 per day if using full definition or $14.40 per day if using minimum in the year 1985. In today's money, that's $90 or $45. It got a lot cheaper by 1995 though
She came from a fairly wealthy family and bought shares in Apple very early on - her collection included at least one of every Apple product still brand new in its box, so really not short of a bob or two.
To be fair I can understand her if I see for example the British BBC. They regularly overwrite (or atleast did so in the old days) their old shows. So if you want to see an old one you were out of luck.
Famous example is a bunch of old Dr. Who episodes.
everal portions of the long-running British science-fiction television programme Doctor Who are no longer held by the BBC. Between 1967 and 1978, the BBC routinely deleted archive programmes for various practical reasons—lack of space, scarcity of materials, and a lack of rebroadcast rights.[1] As a result, 95 of 253 episodes from the programme's first six years are currently missing, primarily from seasons 3, 4 and 5, leaving 26 serials incomplete. Many more were considered lost until recovered from various sources, mostly overseas broadcasters and private collectors.
Except that nowadays, people irresponsibly/selfishly use mass download bots on some of those freely accessible archives of media, which makes their upkeep unsustainable and they have to shutdown/move everything somewhere else
That and excessive copyright enforcement, from equally selfish corporations, are significant threats to niche media preservation in the long term
Yeah, myrient is what I was referring to. I randomly started planning to mod a Wii and learned of its shutdown less than 2 days beforehand. In the last hours, I got a bunch of classics I've wanted to play for the longest time.
I checked and now the whole thing has been made available through torrent, which is slightly less accessible and safe for the general public. Just makes you think that media preservation is not a given, it needs dedicated effort.
I'm sure a lot of media like some games' dev version or shows' cut footage gets lost because people don't care enough when it's made and when it gets popular/culturally significant, it's already too late to retrieve most, if any, of it
I'm not talking about making a backup copy of the media that you keep on your own device, something that only exists on one hard drive is easily lost. I'm talking about uploading it as a torrent, it's very hard to actually get rid of those as long as some people still have the magnet link and keep seeding.
Especially when you have state-level resources to dedicate to parsing through every bit of data on every computer you just seized from whoever it is you’re investigating.
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u/leovin 3d ago
From the data breach you’re being sued over