WoodlandAlliance@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world · 10 months agoLost Doctor Who episodes found – but owner is reluctant to hand them to BBCwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1305arrow-down112cross-posted to: datahoarder@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareGhostalmedia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down15·10 months agoDid the “free market” throw this in the bin? This show was publicly funded. If anything the public entity threw it in the bin.
minus-squareLUHG@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·10 months agoWasn’t it the BBC that threw it away?
minus-squarexkforce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down4·10 months agoThe BBC is publicly funded.
minus-squareLUHG@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoCome on man. We know this, we pay the TV licence. We can’t police them throwing shit away.
minus-squarer00ty@kbin.lifelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·10 months agoThey would argue that as custodians, they can decide what is economical to keep and discard. I guess sci-fi wasn’t seen as something that might last 🙄 I suppose with finite storage they did have to make some tough choices though, I guess.
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·10 months agoStorage was seemingly very limited back then. If I remember correctly they reused the tapes to shoot other stuff so they just wrote it over.
minus-squarePregnenolone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·10 months agoThe public participates in the free market
minus-squareanarchotaoist@links.hackliberty.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down13·10 months agoExactly! Also, in a Free Market there would be no Intellectual Propery! IP is a product of the state and could have no effective enforcement in a Free Market. Yes, pirates did the work of preserving culture, but the rest of that statement is inane!
minus-squareotp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·10 months agoPeople are downvoting you, but I don’t know why they disagree. Enforcing IP comes from courts, aka. the legal system, aka. “the state”. What are people disagreeing with??
Did the “free market” throw this in the bin? This show was publicly funded. If anything the public entity threw it in the bin.
Wasn’t it the BBC that threw it away?
The BBC is publicly funded.
Come on man. We know this, we pay the TV licence. We can’t police them throwing shit away.
They would argue that as custodians, they can decide what is economical to keep and discard. I guess sci-fi wasn’t seen as something that might last 🙄
I suppose with finite storage they did have to make some tough choices though, I guess.
Storage was seemingly very limited back then.
If I remember correctly they reused the tapes to shoot other stuff so they just wrote it over.
The public participates in the free market
Exactly! Also, in a Free Market there would be no Intellectual Propery! IP is a product of the state and could have no effective enforcement in a Free Market. Yes, pirates did the work of preserving culture, but the rest of that statement is inane!
People are downvoting you, but I don’t know why they disagree.
Enforcing IP comes from courts, aka. the legal system, aka. “the state”. What are people disagreeing with??