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'Over the Garden Wall' is being removed from streaming on Max, and fans aren't happy
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this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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This shit is why I pirate. I hoard all the shows that are orphaned, canceled, and otherwise let out to pasture that I can find (and are not canceled because they are trash).
I love being a minor archive, a datapoint for some rare stuff so it never dies. But it’s so very sad that others are deprived of things because some rich fuck wants more money…
I recently thought to add dinosaurs (Jim Henson) to my collection, haven’t seen that shit since I was a toddler myself.
Welcome to my world lol. 30TB of every tv show, film, album, comedy special, book, comic, and video game (until we hit the PS3/360 era cause I'm not made of money for storage lol). As long as I've ever enjoyed it, I got it.
According to the article it is still on Hulu, so there's that. Is there some legal mechanism where abandoned works of art become public domain?
Of course! According to copyright law, a work enters the public domain after 28 years, or potentially after 28 more if the author was still alive and reapplied. Well, at least that was the case back in the 1970s before Disney lobbied heavily over several decades, so they could keep copyright of Steamboat Willie long after Disney died. Because of Disney, the most recent law upholds copyright for 70 years after the death of the author. Or for works of corporate authorship, like with Disney, the act allowed 95 years from the work's original publication or 120 years from the creation, whichever expires first.
So basically because of Disney, no one will ever get to take advantage of a work released during their life moving to the public domain, because we'll all be dead before then.
Max’s fuckery which led to losing ANY legal means to stream animated shows like Infinity Train is what led me to start pirating in the first place. It’s an insult to the creators and the audience.
I started many a decade ago myself (well...2 lol) but I fully agree. I'm a long time Doctor Who fan, I know well the pains of deleted media. Have had to long ensure that anything I want access to is in my possession one way or another.
Yet another amazing business move from Warner Bros. Discovery. Do the streaming platforms just want people to go back to pirating stuff?
Final Space was another show that I only heard about after it was cancelled. I wonder if this one would be as good.
This one is far, far better.
It’s a small one off 10 episodes show with no filler and a charming story, featuring Elijah Wood.
If you only ever watch one animated series in your life , you’d not be disappointed if it was this one.
Final Space was fun and all, but this is more like art than simple comedy.
Final Space was so good, it and OTGW being lost are tragic.
Fortunately, the creator of Final Space recently got permission to tie it up in a giant graphic novel (with the weirdest restrictions - certain and fixed number, no loans to make it, could only sell it on his own website and not a marketplace).
FinalSpaceEnds - they've been sold out for weeks, but are showing 91 available as of this post.
It's not even really specific to Halloween, it's more just autumn-themed (a bit wintry in EP10), so it is somewhat less likely that everybody is going to watch it all at the same time (if that even matters, also I'd imagine it takes less bandwidth than the same duration of live-action content).
Assuming content is balanced on different servers, you'd think a highly-acclaimed (for young and old) seasonal (rather than holiday) 10-episode animation series would be the absolute pinnacle of content to have on a subscription service. Evergreen content. Well, that is if it actually made sense beyond short-term money.
I bought this on Australian Blu Ray (it was never released on Blu Ray in the USA) when the shenanigans started at Warner Brothers/HBO. I am glad I did.