For me, ________ is basically all sports games that have ever been broadcast. Most of them are just locked away somewhere, with literally no legal way for anyone to see them.
All creative works should become public domain in 18 years. Capitalism requires infinite growth, right? Well, there ya go! See how that helps?
Can’t argue with that logic. If we’re going to say “nah, we’ll just be continuing to pump CO2 into the sky and hollowing out the ground for every scrap of precious minerals, until we literally strip the whole globe of every resource we can scavenge from it, and we’ve poisoned every liter of drinkable water, BECAUSE THE ECONOMY DEMANDS IT,” then yeah, we should be placing a similar demand on infinitely growing creative resources, as well.
The irony, of course, being that CREATIVE RESOURCES ACTUALLY ARE FUCKING FUNCTIONALLY INFINITE.
Keep feeding these artist motherfuckers and they’ll keep giving you fucking ideas. Goddamn. That should seem like a sweet deal, right?
The reason a lot of those shows is actually pretty fucked. They want ownership to the shows because any product still sold based on the show still gives them profits. However, if they put up access to the show, views = royalties they need to pay to the creators + licensing costs. The profit for that isnt enough and they wanna funnel more views onto more popular media to concept profits on shows with the lowest costs + has the highest profit to cost ratio.
Tldr: it’s about appeasing shareholders, as it always is.
Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea
It is a French cartoon whose English dub aired on a Nickelodeon in the early '80s. It had everything my young imagination could want in a story - an alien world within our own, strange people and cultures, a mysterious guide, a man overcoming a difficult past, and an ancient cataclysm whose threats echo into the world today.
It also had the most slapping opening theme I may have ever heard.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/CG6aGpnP6kSuiXbY/?mibextid=jmPrMh
Sorry for the Facebook link, but this is the only active copy of the opening I can find because the corporate takedown game is strong for a 40-year-old cartoon that can only be watched in Australia.
For me, it was an obscure Canadian tv show from the 80s called ‘The Odyssey’ - but I contacted the rights-holders and they sent me a dvd set of the show for $50.
Fun fact: Ryan Reynolds has a small part in it
glowers at Nintendo
Drivers and software packages for older hardware. I know we can’t expect any company to support old stuff forever, but they incessantly purge driver downloads to “save hosting costs” and it makes a lot of retro but usable hardware paperweights. And since their “private intellectual property” they never post it to any kind of open source site, regardless of how old…
This is why the Internet Archive is so incredibly important. If anyone is going to donate money to any causes, put that shit HIGH UP ON THE PRIORITY LIST.
I paid for Amazon prime, Paramount+, and “Ad Free” and it still fucking gives me ads!
I shit-canned Prime on the spot when they announced ads. They already lock most their content off behind further paywalls anyway.
Jellyfin ain’t got no ads though.
Horribly, an argument can be made that ad revenue is one of the only metrics that can really underscore which shows people are actually watching, and encourage the dragons to retain that media, rather than let it slip back into the limbo pit.
What?
Are you trying to say they have no stats on what people stream on their platform if it isn’t connected to an ad? Because that would be completely insane.
Libraries = you have a fundamental right to free media
The precedent is already established. Piracy is the modern library. Media and software ownership needs to be something like 3 years from public release. No, you can’t make one cool thing and exploit that for 100 years, and you can’t milk your mediocrity either. If your BS sucks, everyone will just wait for 3 years to consume it for free. So what, you suck at your job and need to find other work. If all software was open source after 3 years, the entire world would advance much more quickly and equally. Capitalism only works if everyone can enter, no one is too big to fail, and the consolidation is a guaranteed failure.
The infuriating thing is, I truly believe the dragons would make more money if they conceded to everything you just said. As it stands, collector’s style box sets still make a lot of money, and everyone knows that merch is where the really sweet cash gets raked in.
If they just hosted basically everything on the Internet, for everyone to watch, for free, that would massively increase the mindshare install base of all their media, which would make way more people likely to buy shirts, bobbleheads, posters, etc.
The profit margins on that stuff = ABSOLUTELY VAST, BEYOND ALL BELIEF. And the fucked up thing is, you sometimes DO see official merch being sold for properties that can’t be legally watched, anywhere. You already paid for that show to be made, possibly 60 years ago. You could increase those merch sales any time you want, just by letting people see it.
But dragons are gonna dragon. Hoarding behavior.
