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Did you know that you cannot legally stream My Fair Lady? I found this out when I tried to show it to my daughters. Apparently the copyright agreements don't

by btilly 7y ago

Did you know that you cannot legally stream My Fair Lady? I found this out when I tried to show it to my daughters. Apparently the copyright agreements don't cover how to split the proceeds from streaming, so nobody can sell Amazon, Netflix, etc the right to stream it. But it is on The Pirate Bay...

thomasfl 7y ago
The same goes for Studio Ghibli’s animated movies.
- CWuestefeld 7y ago
  ...and also for WKRP In Cincinnati. Anywhere you do see it, it's not with the original music. They stripped out all the old radio tracks and replaced it with crap. What a shame that the rights holders are so short sighted. The nostalgia those old tracks would create would surely sell more records. And it's not like anybody is going to be satisfied with replaying the video when they want the song, with the characters talking over the top of it.
  - stOneskull 7y ago
    reminds me of watching Married With Children recently, no Franky title music
    - ElCapitanMarkla 7y ago
      Oh I wondered what happened there. I was thinking that maybe they had changed it in the later seasons but I was sure I’d never heard that version of it before.
  - nitemice 7y ago
    Same thing happened to Daria. All the official releases have had all the then-current songs replaced with sound-alikes, placeholder music, or silence.
    - sockpuppet999 7y ago
      It's a shame as that cartoon was, and still is, A classic. I remember trying to find torrents back in the day. It's all on Hulu now. A little off topic- I apologize
    - conradfr 7y ago
      Same for Malcolm in the middle. It was not even available on dvd for a very long time. So much potential money lost.
saalweachter 7y ago
I actually watched My Fair Lady recently ... on YouTube TV. I couldn't find it anywhere, saw it coming up in a month or three in the search box, set it to "record", watched it in a streaming-like way later. It's weird; you can't watch it on demand, but you can virtually DVR it when it is "broadcast" at an arbitrary time.

by btilly 7y ago

thomasfl 7y ago

The same goes for Studio Ghibli’s animated movies.

CWuestefeld 7y ago
...and also for WKRP In Cincinnati. Anywhere you do see it, it's not with the original music. They stripped out all the old radio tracks and replaced it with crap. What a shame that the rights holders are so short sighted. The nostalgia those old tracks would create would surely sell more records. And it's not like anybody is going to be satisfied with replaying the video when they want the song, with the characters talking over the top of it.
- stOneskull 7y ago
  reminds me of watching Married With Children recently, no Franky title music
  - ElCapitanMarkla 7y ago
    Oh I wondered what happened there. I was thinking that maybe they had changed it in the later seasons but I was sure I’d never heard that version of it before.
- nitemice 7y ago
  Same thing happened to Daria. All the official releases have had all the then-current songs replaced with sound-alikes, placeholder music, or silence.
  - sockpuppet999 7y ago
    It's a shame as that cartoon was, and still is, A classic. I remember trying to find torrents back in the day. It's all on Hulu now. A little off topic- I apologize
  - conradfr 7y ago
    Same for Malcolm in the middle. It was not even available on dvd for a very long time. So much potential money lost.

saalweachter 7y ago

I actually watched My Fair Lady recently ... on YouTube TV. I couldn't find it anywhere, saw it coming up in a month or three in the search box, set it to "record", watched it in a streaming-like way later. It's weird; you can't watch it on demand, but you can virtually DVR it when it is "broadcast" at an arbitrary time.