this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
8 points (90.0% liked)
Data Hoarder
168 readers
1 users here now
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The basic premise here is that people with these lost episodes 'stole' them from bins after they were thrown out by the BBC, so don't want to admit this to the BBC, as they are worried that the rather large corporation that the BBC is, will take them to court and win.
Ex-BBC archives staff. They have had an amnesty in place for decades. They will let you keep the recording if you wish, they just want to make a copy. Any serious collector would know this. The article is quite dreadful, Franklin the main interviewee has criticized it apparently.
Any source to this? Sounds reasonable but then one reads only about BBC being evil...
After all, for a "Broadcasting Corporation" it should be easy to leave some pointers somewhere...