“HBO Max Removed Cigarettes And Cigars From Classic Movie Posters On Its Streaming Platform”
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I give zero shits if this breaks some kind of rule or whatever: This is why media archival is important. I'd say get it physical, but that gives these fucks money half the time. Pirate that shit and make sure it's the original stuff. Historical revisionism is one of the worst things out there, and should be condemned in all measures.
It’s why I got 2 6 foot tall bookcases full of movies & shows, just for this reason. I even saw the other day Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker altered the Joker’s death scene and removed the gun 🤦♂️
I've got a bunch of my faves on DVD, with a few terabytes of films on hard-drive. The only reason I "have" Netflix and others is because I don't pay for it, the rest of my family shares the account and I can see shit if I absolutely must away from home, and most times I don't even do that, because I can do literally anything else.
But yeah, preserve originals, because this shit is only going to get more and more common.
Same with me for the Nextflix part, tried to get my family to cancel Netflix after the Cuties fiasco, but that turned into a no go.
Just one point I forgot from earlier, I even got a VCR for original versions of the Star Wars movies.
That was because Columbine happened just before the movie's release.
Still stupid to do, though.
Physical also has a real problem of damage over time slowly destroying it. Not a real problem for pure archival purposes, but if you intend to also enjoy the work it'll slowly whittle it down. And even if you don't slow degradation can still effect some physical works.
That's why its always important to not only have a physical copy, but then locally back it up digitally to maintain it.
Digital can still have the same problems. A hard-drive goes and there's a reasonable chance it won't be recoverable. Ideally, multiple points of storage is the solution, both physical and digital, but that's not really practical for the vast majority of people.
Of course, but its a lot easier to have multiple digital backups simply because harddrives will continue to be produced, thereby allowing you to have backups on your backups for cheap and minimal space. Whereas the physical likely has long stopped being made and will only increase in price, making it very hard to replace any broken bits.
Point being, backup and then have more backups. Physical is great, but time and physics will do its thing to them so actually using them is not always ideal.
You can make more physical backups, DVD burning isn't exactly the hardest thing to get into (compared to decades gone by with things like VHS), but I do get what you mean.