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I still buy hard media (which makes me a Luddite apparently) because I consider it art and refuse to pay for digital media that is allegedly perpetual and then one day it goes missing because the wokes decided it should be memory holed.

One of many, many examples: https://screenrant.com/its-always-sunny-blackface-episodes-m...

Even things like iTunes Music Store which once claimed that all your past purchases are available for download from iCloud forever quietly became untrue when I discovered parts of my music library went missing. Come to find out the record company decided to pull licensing from Apple which made that media forever unavailable. So don't forget your backups..... rule of thumb is that you can never trust any company with your media no matter how much bullshit they sell you.

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I have had 4 different shows have content cut from them that I noticed this year, for a variety of woke factors.

- Peep Show (Jeremy & Nancy "taboo" breaking episode)

- 30 Rock (Jenna & Tracy "role reversal" episode)

- Community (Chang D&D)

- Always Sunny

In these instances, the character that is doing the "deplorable" act is the villian or idiot. It's not like these shows are promoting those views, they're actually doing the opposite.

It's so bizarre.

Do you have any little disc destroying demons around... oh wait, did I say that out loud? I meant little kids.

Discs are good for ripping then straight to storage (or mailing back to Netflix?) but that's about it.

It would be cool to have a shared database of binaries+commands to recreate scene rips from the discs. Or just following along with someone who knows what they're doing and doesn't go for one-size-fits-all compression.

The majority of the media I bought on iTunes from about 2006 onwards is gone. Some of the music is still there, but every music video, show, and movie is gone. If I hadn't had the common sense in high school to back it all up to my hard drive, it would be gone forever. that was a tough wake up call that I don't own any media I "buy" from Apple/Amazon/etc. I'm renting it until they're done hosting it.

Yo ho yo ho, back to my old life I go.

>then one day it goes missing because the wokes decided it should be memory holed.

[EDIT: yeah, I can't read. Sorry for missing the example that immediately followed. ]

/ignore: Curious, can you provide any examples of this actually happening?

The next line in his comment was an example

More examples: There is at least one Disney film that is not available anywhere (Song of the South; even eBay banned sale of used dvds. I saw this film as a child on I guess VHS).

There are other Disney films and WB cartoons with large sequences removed.

Song of the South is apologist towards slavery. It should rot.

Disney pulled the chord on SotS decades ago of their own accord despite their conservative leanings as an organization. That wasn’t because of “the wokes.” They straight up saw it as a liability.

It’s also very easy to watch if it’s that important to you to watch racist nonsense. Hell I think internet archive hosts it, they did a while back for sure.

They linked to one in the following sentence.

>because the wokes decided it should be memory holes

You truly believe that’s the driving force behind the problem? That “wokes” are the primary reason some content is hard to get and/or keeps getting pulled from streaming services?

It’s licensing increasingly becoming the core product and everyone and their mother trying to launch their own streaming services. We’ve been slowly backsliding into this situation for the better part of a decade.

But how do you actually find content that you like?

Sometimes I have to go though 4-5 different shows/movies on various streaming networks before I find something worth watching and even then, the shows usually get really bad by season 2-3. I can't imagine how wasteful it would be to have to buy all these bad shows instead of just streaming them.

But how do you actually find content that you like?

Recommendations from friends. Reviews by trusted critics. The same ways we've always found other things we like really.

I can't imagine how wasteful it would be to have to buy all these bad shows instead of just streaming them.

I have a significant disc collection of movies and TV shows I enjoy. I have almost nothing I haven't rewatched at least once and enjoyed again and/or lent to friends or family at some point for them to enjoy as well. I don't really know how that happened but I can tell you that almost none of those discs were bought as new releases other than big names that I was already fairly sure I'd enjoy or sequels/spin-offs of things I'd previously enjoyed.

I'm in your camp, but I think you used the antonym of the word you intended to: "ephemeral" vs. "eternal" :)

You are correct, thank you. I blame lack of sleep and coffee. :)

Almost a decent comment.

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