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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Why does purpose or ethics matter. It is called piracy and not robin hood.

    Whatever the intent, it incentives archival even with selfish purposes across different decentralized sources, which is pretty valuable with that huge amount of data that would be expensive for a centralized entity to archive on their own. Not to mention a single point of failure. So even selfishness is leading to helping history not be lost.

    And you think 100 years from now or longer if some random historian comes across some still working storage containing long lost media that a pirate had kept they are going to care about the legality of that at the time?

    And don’t forget how much game versions change from launch, so new version is history too. Same for movies and shows and books with how editing has been done that’s led to loss of the original copy. And led to reliance of fans to restore content like Star Wars.

    It is happening now with Netflix too where now the pirated versions of some Netflix show is the only way to see what was originally shown.

    “We have George Lucas’d things also that people don’t know about,” the siblings told Variety, referring to the Star Wars director’s much-critiqued altered re-releases of the original franchise. “It’s not, like, story, but you’re essentially patching in shots.”

    https://futurism.com/the-byte/netflix-retroactive-editing

    The MCU’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is barely a year old, but even the Marvel superhero miniseries isn’t immune from Disney’s re-editing efforts. In March 2022 some devoted Reddit fans discovered that a scene where Bucky throws a pipe through a woman’s shoulder had been altered so that woman falls back on the pipe instead.

    https://screenrant.com/tv-shows-films-edited-after-original-release/

    14 years… Time doesn’t stand still for that long.

















  • Umm… What did you think the point of mods on reddit was? The mods we chose to support and followed here to lemmy and kept the community on track?

    And you know you can just lurk on here and can use another instance that better fits your idea of the type of conversations you want. There’s nothing keeping you from making an account on exploding heads and chatting away with them. You can multiple accounts you know.