Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”
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Piracy sites are now very often the best archive sites; if you are into old and/or obscure films very often your only choice is to go to piracy sites. Same used to be the case for music with what.cd - what an amazing musical archive that was. I still miss what.cd. Until corporations figure out a way to offer such archives, piracy will continue to grow as more and more content becomes unavailable because these corporate digital libraries are being taken away.
Corporations will never offer such archives, as they're a money losing proposition. In some cases IP and copyright law is even such that content can't be realistically archived and provided.
Yeah, I think the same. Good news for piracy... but sad that people will have to rely on trackers that can disappear at any time and without warning. Mind you copyright does expire... but I have no idea how that would work. Project Gutenberg for media with large file sizes would be expensive to run... but then storage may continue to get cheaper. But yeah, it won't be a corporate that will be offering a solution.
Copyright expires long after unprofitable content has been all but lost forever, something like 100 years after the death of the original creator. It used to be a far shorter period, but US corporations with big profitable IP holdings keep bribing lawmakers to extend it, and force its enforcement outside of the US as well. The concept of being able to sell copyrights is also quite silly if you ask me.
So unfortunate Gutenberg and similar libraries can only have really old stuff as things stand.
what.cd was the best.
I still miss what.cd
Isn't there a site called redacted that is meant to replace it? I remember failing the interviews for it.
Yeah, weirdly enough I just found it after remembering how good what.cd was. I have seen that the interview asks about transcoding... so yeah... might have to do some learning 'fore I have a go at an interview. I guess if the bar to entry is high then that is probably a good thing. I think I only got into what.cd because I met someone who had an invite.
I failed the interview because even though I got all the answers correct I had their interview prep page open in another tab and when they gave me the chance to come clean about it I lied instead 😬
You could try Orpheus, I managed to join today. It's even got a what.cd skin so you can pretend you're home again. https://interview.orpheus.network/
Looks great. Thanks.
Oh no! That's good to know though, thank you. I will study a page a day and do the interview in a week or so, this will stress me out no end, I'm sure. 😅
