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Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it? (www.theatlantic.com)

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I started to use Mr. Roger's Neighborhood as an example, but switched to Sesame Street for effect since the former "only" has 922 episodes. The point is, PBS does the same thing with all their shows. It doesn't matter who makes it; everything from Arthur to Word Girl only has a dozen or so episodes available at any given time.

(Ditto for non-kids PBS stuff like Nova or This Old House, for that matter, I think. Even on Youtube they only make the latest few seasons available and remove access to everything older in hopes you'll buy DVDs or something.)

[-] phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It might be a rights issue. Not sure if PBS owns the rights, the Fred Rogers Company, or someone else. A lot of it doesn't seem available at all. I came across a near complete archive from a twitch stream though if you're interested: https://archive.org/details/@ipoy143

[-] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I've run across that (it's surprising how much stuff you can get from archive.org). Unfortunately, I don't currently have enough disk space for it!

It can't only be a rights issue though, because, again, PBS restricts access to the back catalog of literally everything regardless of who owns it.

[-] phillaholic@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It wouldn’t be uncommon for the rights to be divided up and sold per season given the context of children’s content. They are a nonprofit.

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