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this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2024
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This has been slowly happening for a long time without fanfare. A lot of stuff you used to be able to watch for free on YouTube (even older stuff) is getting more difficult or impossible to find due to aggressive copystrikes, probably to try and push us onto cable and streaming services.
Cartoon Network likes to wipe shows from the internet after they finish or are cancelled and theyโre probably not the only ones.
Also the Internet Archive recently lost a copyright lawsuit that means access to 50,000 (?) books (and movies?) was lost.
Basically corporations are getting more aggressive about gatekeeping what you can access for free and taking stuff down, so a lot of people are advocating for making physical backups or obtaining copies of anything important to you.