If it’s for preservation they should probably look into tape or optical storage.
Realistically your friend is not doing it for preservation considering that there are way better equipped individuals and organisations for that (the BBC for example).
I really don’t get why people have started to say that they only do it for preservation like they run a museum or an archive. Come on man, that movie is available literally everything and your hard drive will fuck up the storage of the files long before humanity losses access to that movie.
Preservation is extremely relevant for streaming services, because you don’t own anything. Sure, that movie or show is there today, but the streaming service could decide to take it down tomorrow, and then it’s gone. Maybe forever. Corporations have no interest in preservation, unless it makes them money. And sometimes, oddly, not even then.
There can also be weird issues with copyrights or something like that. Take the example of old Beavis & Butt-Head episodes. MTV had to cut out the music videos, because they no longer held the rights to show them anymore. There are episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 like this. They had permission to show that movie at the time the episode was made, but they don’t hold those rights anymore, so they can’t offer that episode for streaming.
If it’s for preservation they should probably look into tape or optical storage. Realistically your friend is not doing it for preservation considering that there are way better equipped individuals and organisations for that (the BBC for example).
I really don’t get why people have started to say that they only do it for preservation like they run a museum or an archive. Come on man, that movie is available literally everything and your hard drive will fuck up the storage of the files long before humanity losses access to that movie.
I download movies because I like free movies.
Preservation is extremely relevant for streaming services, because you don’t own anything. Sure, that movie or show is there today, but the streaming service could decide to take it down tomorrow, and then it’s gone. Maybe forever. Corporations have no interest in preservation, unless it makes them money. And sometimes, oddly, not even then.
There can also be weird issues with copyrights or something like that. Take the example of old Beavis & Butt-Head episodes. MTV had to cut out the music videos, because they no longer held the rights to show them anymore. There are episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 like this. They had permission to show that movie at the time the episode was made, but they don’t hold those rights anymore, so they can’t offer that episode for streaming.
Of course the streaming service rotate their content. That’s kinda the entire point.
Preservation is important but an amateur that puts a movie on their Plex/jellyfin server isn’t important.
It might be important to them, so why judge?
It’s important if they share the file, too.