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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by jedberg on Friday November 19, 2021 @02:55PM (#29281518)
> a random missing episode seems like a weird problem, would love to know what was going on

In almost every case like that, the answer is "we can't figure out if this is licensed for streaming because it didn't exist yet". Usually it's music, which they licensed for "broadcast and video cassette release" or some similar language. In most cases they've decided DVD is close enough to VHS to still count, but is streaming? Courts haven't really decided yet.

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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by majormajor on Friday November 19, 2021 @02:57PM (#29281557)
That's why this case is weird: it's a brand new episode. And it is in the CBS streaming app. Just missing from YouTube's cable product.
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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by foobarian on Friday November 19, 2021 @03:17PM (#29281813)
Maybe there is a dollar sign or backslash or something in the title/description. Or a rogue UTF8 byte order mark [1] throwing off some comparison :-)

[1] https://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2012/09/03/a-rogue-3572732...

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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by jedberg on Friday November 19, 2021 @03:15PM (#29281784)
Ah. That is odd. Maybe there was an error in the master file given to YouTube or a glitch in their encoder that skipped it.
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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by FroshKiller on Friday November 19, 2021 @03:17PM (#29281814)
The season 8 premiere of Forged in Fire last year got pulled because one of the contestants turned out to be a neo-Nazi with a visible neo-Nazi tattoo.
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