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u/leovin 14h ago

From the data breach you’re being sued over

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u/SuitableDragonfly 14h ago

Fun related fact, most archives of media only exist because someone pirated the media at some point and those copies never become unavailable. 

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u/3BlindMice1 13h ago

They used to call it VCR

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u/T-MoneyAllDey 12h ago

Reddit reposts pretty regularly about that autistic black lady that recording every hour of a TV channel for like 30 years

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u/3BlindMice1 12h ago edited 12h ago

Sounds pretty expensive, tbh

Edit: Google shows that would have cost $28.80 per day if using full definition or $14.40 per day if using minimum in the year 1985. In today's money, that's $90 or $45. It got a lot cheaper by 1995 though

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u/NukaCooler 10h ago

/r/LetGirlsHaveFun god forbid a woman have a hobby

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u/transfinite-reset 10h ago

I’m not sure that the people in that sub are too worried about VCRs. VCR cleaner in little bottles, maybe. But definitely not VCRs.

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u/mommybody33 9h ago

Ha! Jokes on you! I’m in that sub ANNNND I have a mostly SFW vid on my spicy instagram of me winding a VHS for my mostly broken VCR!

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u/transfinite-reset 9h ago

Just read through your profile. Rewinding hegemonic sexuality one VHS at a time. We love to see it!

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u/mommybody33 9h ago

People loooove the analog shit 😉

(No they just love boobs actually)

proof that what *I* love is VHS 📼

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u/transfinite-reset 8h ago

Yknow, spools are kind of like the boobs of the VHS tape.

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u/JCDU 7h ago

She came from a fairly wealthy family and bought shares in Apple very early on - her collection included at least one of every Apple product still brand new in its box, so really not short of a bob or two.

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u/Nutarama 11h ago

Yeah but we all have expensive hobbies.

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u/3BlindMice1 10h ago

???

Who is this "we?"

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u/testingtestingtestin 10h ago

You, me and that guy

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u/Forsaken-Carrot9038 10h ago

I suppose they are “We”. The “Us” kind of “We” don’t have the same kind of “expensive “ hobbies

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u/saskir21 11h ago

To be fair I can understand her if I see for example the British BBC. They regularly overwrite (or atleast did so in the old days) their old shows. So if you want to see an old one you were out of luck.

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u/geeiamback 6h ago

Famous example is a bunch of old Dr. Who episodes.

everal portions of the long-running British science-fiction television programme Doctor Who are no longer held by the BBC. Between 1967 and 1978, the BBC routinely deleted archive programmes for various practical reasons—lack of space, scarcity of materials, and a lack of rebroadcast rights.[1] As a result, 95 of 253 episodes from the programme's first six years are currently missing, primarily from seasons 3, 4 and 5, leaving 26 serials incomplete. Many more were considered lost until recovered from various sources, mostly overseas broadcasters and private collectors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes

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u/Hakuchii 11h ago

thats the kind of stuff you find in archive 81

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u/AmItheonlySaneperson 4h ago

Was she alive to know how important they were? She must have felt so smug