That's a bummer. Maybe they could upload the videos to the Internet Archive?
Even the very old videos got deleted so often that I gave up.
At least last time I wanted to watch Tom and Jerry with my youngest daughter it was gone.
(Or maybe that was still within copyright? I don't know.)
The idea of trademarks is to prevent customer confusion, and while there's some abuse and perverse incentives most trademark law makes sense through that lens. You are allowed to sell your used Ford F150 under the trademark Ford, because that's an accurate description. It doesn't stop being a Ford, pretty much no matter what you do to it. But if you build a car from scratch and claim it's a Ford F150 that's a trademark violation because you would be pretending that the vehicle was made by the Ford Motor Company, with their manufacturing standards, quality control etc.
The very first Tom and Jerry was only 80 years ago, another 10-20 years before the ones released towards the end of the 1940s would be available
You can get a lot of them on amazon.
Not being able to do the former doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do the latter, especially if the risk is “real”.
(My system is relatively cheap as it only consists of a ZFS mirror array and some offline drives; a major fire might take me out but the stuff that should survive that is offsite.)
Our neighbourhood just recently got fiber to the home, so I will be going from 30Mbps upload to 940Mbps upload in a couple weeks. Then I can get some proper offsite backups going.
Do I use it? My wife watches media on jellyfin, but I just have a compulsion to gather data and hoard it. I restrict myself to a 36U server rack at least, so it doesn't take up much physical space.
Do you have any opinions?
Thanks for more information.
I wish I had access to a tape library though, just it is hard to justify the upfront cost. My cluster has organically grown over the last ten years or so, making a huge near $8000 single purchase for a new tape drive, plus however much automatic tape rotation costs (I presume I need some sort of tape library for that? I have never used tape before) would be hard to justify.
You can spend that money on way more drives and increase the number of copies you have on and offline.
As for automation the libraries aren’t much more than the drive, but you can also just manually load tapes if you had to.
Why 20x overhead over raw storage cost?
May as well use