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Remember the 1990s when you had VHS tape ready to record if MTV ran a really good music video.
Sound quality was close to CD quality if your equipment supported NICAM or probably the first digital audio codec that saw widespread adoption and was carried in the excess scanlines of NTSC and PAL.
Happily, #Paramount's attempt to take down its own #MTV archive was unsuccessful. Most of it had already been captured by the @internetarchive's #WaybackMachine.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mtv-news-saved-internet-archive-1235051776/
(#paywalled)
Bravo to the #InternetArchive.
Here's more on Paramount's attempt to take the archive offline.
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mtv-news-website-archives-pulled-offline-1236047163/
MTV News Website Saved by Internet Archive After Being Pulled
The Internet Archive has created a searchable index of the old MTV News website, after it was unexpectedly pulled down last week.Jon Blistein (Rolling Stone)
So it seems like Paramount is encouraging us to pirate anything from MTV, VH1, CMT, and Comedy Central (so far) π€·πΌββοΈ
https://latenighter.com/news/paramount-axes-comedy-central-website-show-clips-library/
#FuckCapitalism #Paramount #MTV #VH1 #CMT #ComedyCentral
Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone
One of the richest repositories of late-night videosβincluding 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'βis no longer.Jed Rosenzweig (LateNighter)