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Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along by convolvatron on Saturday January 21, 2023 @12:59PM (#34468478)
does LOC archive content that was never put on a physical format?
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Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along by rolenthedeep on Saturday January 21, 2023 @01:21PM (#34468718)
Yes. I don't know a whole lot about their system, but I do know they tried to keep an archive of all public Twitter posts for a long time
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Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along by chimeracoder on Saturday January 21, 2023 @01:46PM (#34468989)
> I do know they tried to keep an archive of all public Twitter posts for a long time

That was the result of a specific deal Twitter made early on (itself a marketing stunt, of sorts). It doesn't mean the Library of Congress is generally in the business of archiving DRM-ed media on streaming services.

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