[beej71]

While this is a great idea, it's generally illegal for IA to share that content. And it's looking increasingly unlikely IA will be in existence 90 years from now, so it's unclear there'd be a point in them simply archiving it. If copyright were 14 years, if give IA a lot more of a chance of still being around then.

And apparently the videos are no longer available to download, so it's not an option, anyway.

Barring some change of heart by the copyright holder, these episodes are gone forever.

[nine_k]

Aren't there some "data hoarder" fans who have them downloaded just in case, and could upload to IA or even torrent?

[beej71]

One can hope. I hoard my own interests (this wasn't one of them) but don't distribute it. Good luck seeing any of it ever. A lot of it would be out of copyright with a 24-year term.

[theturtletalks]

I think down below, they are saying the episodes aren't gone, just paywalled behind Paramount+ now.

[rsanek]

third paragraph of the linked article

> Unfortunately for those in search of older episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, neither can be found on Paramount+.

[dgoldstein0]

Iiuc only some of them are now on Paramount Plus.