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As a result of these copyright prohibitions Muppet Babies is in much more danger of becoming lost media. A lot of the early film media we lost wasn't just the

by munk-a 3y ago

As a result of these copyright prohibitions Muppet Babies is in much more danger of becoming lost media. A lot of the early film media we lost wasn't just the cinematic flops (though we did lose quite a lot of that) but instead films that may have been blockbusters in their time but were owned by very controlling studios. A classic example of this is 1917's Cleopatra which may have been the most expensive film ever shot.

ta988 3y ago
Same with software and products from really controlling industries or research from really controlling academia. We have lost a lot of human productions because of control, egos and misjudgements.
- cogman10 3y ago
  What's fascinating to me is the ongoing "open" movements reverse engineering old executables to make code maintainable. Stuff like openra
  - ta988 3y ago
    Indeed, and I really hope we will get better disassemblers and code interpretation tools that can make that task much easier.
compsciphd 3y ago
All 8 seasons seem to be well seeded in torrent land.