[willcipriano]

I maintain a cultural archive of about 60 terabytes for this purpose. I have both the original and upscaled Simpsons and Seinfeld, but I mostly focus on stuff that people never think about (ever hear of Jon Benjamin Has a Van, that sort of thing). As storage mediums and formats change I carry it forward, last year I started adding YouTube creators. Eventually I'll hand that task off to my daughter if she also sees that work as important.

[mkr-hn]

You can always ship it to the Internet Archive if she doesn't and you can't find a way to maintain an independent copy. Maybe by then you can set up some kind of organization like IA for the replication value.

[willcipriano]

That's a fair point, the idea is also to preserve the media that we as a family consume. Growing up my dad would take me to the video store and find old classics from his childhood, the archive contains many of those as well as all of the stuff important to me. I hope that she will add her own media and then pass it to her children (should she choose to have them that is). What we choose to read, listen to and watch tells us so much about who we are as a culture and as a people.

[everyone]

One of the tragic effects of the MAFIAA's legal efforts to stop piracy, was that, though they could never reduce the amount of popular stuff being pirated, they did manage to shut down a lot of niche sites or private trackers, where people had meticulously curated rare and obscure content that was impossible to get anywhere else.

[BiteCode_dev]

I recently discoveree the "kai" version of popular animes, meaning a recut of the hundred of episodes by fans to remove repeatitions, fillers, useless flashbacks and long stares or empty dialogs that just waste time.

You can now watch the entire Dragon Ball and DBZ in half the time it should take, missing nothing from the original, saving on frustration.

There are gigabytes of content, it's crazy to me some people spend years on those and just give them away as torrents, doing a better job that the right holders swimming in money.

[nickthegreek]

Naruto Kai made the series watchable for me.

[jrootabega]

That was a good show. Got any Exit 57?

[willcipriano]

First I've heard of it, but that is exactly the sort of thing I'm going for, I'll check it out. I thought I had most of the UCB related stuff, but it goes to show you how much of this stuff will fall through the cracks once we have a generation or two of streamers. My white whale is Viva Variety[0], I've even requested it at some of the private clubs and nobody can find it.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva_Variety

[tashi]

https://archive.org/details/viva-variety-s-01e-01

[willcipriano]

Hey thanks. I never thought to look there as I thought everything they held was past copyright.