News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago. Parent comment

Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by cruffle_duffle on Saturday June 01, 2024 @04:42PM (#40548920)
Disney is only slightly better about nuking old “offensive” content than other providers. Many times they just gave an unskippable “this is culturally offensive to some” text and call it good. For example the old lady and the tramp has that “we are Siamese” song, which I guess is offensive… at least they still let you watch it.

Hulu on the other hand just pulls shit. For example they pulled my favorite it’s always sunny episode where they do that diehard movie. I guess the fact they do black face makes it racist (which they call out as such in the show itself!) and since we are all apparently too stupid to think for ourselves about the content we watch they better block it. After all they know better than me about what is offensive.

… shit like that… that is what is gonna lead me back to piracy.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by exe34 on Saturday June 01, 2024 @05:08PM (#40549078)
in the case I mentioned, the episode "smarter and smarterer" just went down the memory hole, it's like it was never there.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by glandium on Saturday June 01, 2024 @09:18PM (#40550600)
I guess that means Hulu doesn't have Tropic Thunder?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by jamiek88 on Sunday June 02, 2024 @01:47PM (#40555938)
The creators of always sunny pulled that themselves just fyi. They decided as artists that they weren’t cool with it and I think that is their right as creators, personally.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago by exe34 on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @08:12AM (#40583923)
I believe the opposite on this actually. You may be the creator of something, but once you've shown it to me, it becomes the property of the human race. Something our species has done and enjoyed (or hated). You have no right to erase it from existence. You could make a big speech about how bad it was, put a warning at the start, etc, but removing it entirely from existence is just vandalism. Imagine if the Pharaohs decided to blow up the pyramids after they built them!
[ Parent | on HN ]