The first two minutes of this video alone is exactly why physical media won't save us from games and media being destroyed by companies: https://tube.gayfr.online/w/98HSCyGwBU47C7ACMUXdwK

No, having a physical disk will not stop a company from remotely bricking your game. It's a red herring.

#Preservation #StopKillingGames #GamePreservation #Video #MediaPreservation

WE SAVED REBOOT | ReBoot ReWind

https://sh.itjust.works/post/52137175

Annas Archive scrapes and makes available to torrent "around 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB in total size"[1]

According to Anna's Archive Spotify's total music library contains 256 million tracks 99.9% of which they have archived the metadata of, the smaller music archive was created in order of Spotify's "popularity" metric

#Piracy #MediaPreservation #Music #Spotify #AnnasArchive

[1]
https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Here's a New York Times article which talks about the process that one company goes through to preserve valuable recordings. It seems that tapes from before 1970 have fewer problems, a lot of tapes from the 70s and 80s are deteriorating fairly quickly. (Gift link)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/arts/music/iron-mountain-audio-tape-preservation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5k8.811W.SSE8tcv1j9bG&smid=url-share

#audio #recording #mediapreservation

So, late night shower pondering thing…

I’m wondering if there’s a scarcity mindset that makes watching TV more attractive than reading. With things coming and going, if you don’t stream it now, it might go to a streaming service you don’t have before you get to watch it. Or with these mergers, maybe it’ll just go away entirely.

Did you find a show you like? You better binge the heck out if it or it might get canceled.

I’m wondering too if this applies to social media. If I don’t read it now, I might never see it (okay, this feels more like hoarding).

TV used to be at a set time or it was just always going to be on DVD or maybe streaming with Netflix. Pirates are preserving media. It’s what we do with things we appreciate. We collect them and share with others.

#TV #Psychology #MidnightPonderings #MediaPreservation

Streaming platforms betrayed us. They deleted shows we loved. Criminalized sharing. And now, they're calling it “content strategy.”

Piracy may feel like rebellion—but it's not preservation. It's not ownership.

We believe art deserves better.

Read Christine Brenneke’s full breakdown of the broken promises in streaming and how we’re building something better:
https://www.streevomedia.com/blog/streaming-a-love-story-a-betrayal

#DigitalOwnership #Streaming #Streevo #MediaPreservation #FOSS #TechForGood #Mastodon

Hey Fedi Friends, anyone have experience fighting with YouTube over copyright bullshit? I’m not entirely convinced this isn’t a troll and it’s taken down my whole channel, including some other endangered shows and my podcasts.

My main concerns being that I’d think Hasbro would have in-house lawyers, not some solo rando, and the original copyright ping when I uploaded them was from Hasbro Studios, not Hasbro, Inc.

#YouTube #Copyright #MediaPreservation