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Last June, fans of Comedy Central – the long-running channel behind beloved programmes such as The Daily Show and South Park – received an unwelcome surprise. Paramount Global, Comedy Central’s parent company, unceremoniously purged the vast repository of video content on the channel’s website, which dated back to the late 1990s.

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[-] x0x7@lemmy.world 100 points 1 month ago

This is why pirating is justified. If you want your shows to last forever, torrent them, and keep them seeded.

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

I’ve looked around quite a bit for The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. No one seems to have the complete series. The show ran nightly for 30 years and amassed 6714 episodes so it would be quite a large torrent.

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Most of the episodes aired before at-home VHS was common, and TV stations weren’t in the habit of archiving their old footage for nightly broadcasts; The show was viewed as transient since it dealt with current events, and nobody expected people to want to re-watch old episodes. It’s likely that a lot of them aren’t available simply because nobody (including the tv station) has recordings.

[-] el_abuelo@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago

I wish this worked, but it only does for things that are popular.

As it stands I think I'm just going to have to back up my entire media collection for fear of not being able to get a copy during retirement - when I plan to watch a shit tonne of TV.

[-] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It's a shame there is no plan to make consumer grade glass storage.

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