Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20404230

Last June, fans of Comedy Central – the long-running channel behind beloved programmes such as The Daily Show and South Park – received an unwelcome surprise. Paramount Global, Comedy Central’s parent company, unceremoniously purged the vast repository of video content on the channel’s website, which dated back to the late 1990s.