Paramount Erases Archives of MTV Website, Wipes Music, Culture History After 30 Plus Years

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You could literally say that about anything from the past that can be studied. Those interviews with artists, their perspective on what was happening during that time is unique because it gave the news perspective from a non-older person. Someone might want to examine if this media outlet boosted voting amongst the youth; one could also study the impact it had on fashion.

And these are just off the top of the head. It has historical significance.
Yea this was incredibly irresponsible.


That’s HISTORY.
 

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Paramount vying to get ahead of the curve.

In the very near future, everyone will be watching AI television and movies tailor made for the individual consumer..

No longer will you be able to discuss the happenings in your favorite show with friends, as everyone will be watching their own personal shows.
 

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Ehh..I think we'll be aight...long as we all remember and pass down the important shyt ..like what Michael Jackson and thriller started...
 

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What news specifically on mtv needed preserving?
All of it... it's news.

What an ignorant ass statement. You have ways people can look up newspapers from the turn of the century. You got ways to look up what they thought of Shakespeare at the time he was out.

But you can no longer get any news or footage of the entire history of the biggest music channel in world history??? It's ok to not care. It's not smart to be gleeful and think it doesn't matter to see catalogs of history being destroyed.

Wasn't that why we got rid of books and libraries and the old ways of keeping info? Oh it'll be on the internet, you never need to carry around or keep around those relics of information.. Then they start removing things off the internet.. Where does your history go? Just ask black people in the south how important it is to preserve what happened, as our history gets erased
 

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People here sprint harder than Usain to excuse corporate greed as if the managers are reading the coli and will hire whomever defends them the hardest.
Facts.. Same thing they did with video games and moves.. "b-b-b-b-b-b-but fukk physical media... Once we get fast enough internet, everything will be dirt cheap cause no manufacturing... and then who cares about your 1000 cds and movies and games... And who cares if they delete it some day 15 years from now... Nobody will care!!"


Skip to now and they ain't lowered the price of shyt, in fact they raising it... and you can't even find certain songs, albums, og versions, movies, banned episodes, video games, emulators, etc etc... Some of it is shyt you actually paid full price for but they decided you don't need it anymore.. And there's some guy on ebay that has what you want but it now costs $500 cause they don't make it no more.....

And these dudes happy about it.. Not indifferent... No upset... Downright happy about it like they got something out the deal... Amazing
 

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you better download some of this shyt - music, articles, video games, movies, books
cause the internet is not a medium that can store information for longer than 30 years
 

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It’s important, as all archives are, because it provides proper historical context rather than allowing present day ideas about the past to hold as truth
Is the public funding the archives like they do newspaper archives? Answer is no, so when’s the last time you, or anyone else in this thread, looked up something from the mtv archive? I’ll guess the answer is many, many years, if ever. Hence why it’s been given the axe.
 
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