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In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online

144 points • by rdmuser • yesterday at 9:01 PM • 17 comments • view on HN

https://archive.org/details/tippett-archive/


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Ylano • today at 8:19 AM

There's something both wonderful and slightly terrifying about decades of film history being preserved because one person at an auction happened to notice a folder full of old CD-ROMs

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drewbeck • yesterday at 11:53 PM

Tippett Studios or Phil’s name should probably be in the title here to give this the audience it deserves. He’s a legend and many many nerds will know his name.

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soltanov • today at 6:57 AM

Hosting 90GB on Internet Archive is step one. Mirroring the torrents is step two, before copyright lawyers notice the auction bypass. Seed it while it exists.

Barbing • today at 4:42 AM

Anonymous hero rescues 90GB of content from CD binder spotted at auction. Beautiful.

justnoice • today at 2:42 AM

Huge thanks to him. It’s a real shame that so much material in this world, for one reason or another, will never see the light of day.

hizlikovboy27 • today at 7:29 AM

this is great to see. Losing all that material to private collections would have been a shame. thanks to everyone who helped preserve and share it.

stavros • today at 12:41 AM

This has Textfiles vibes.

EDIT: Yep: https://discmaster.textfiles.com/cd-rom?search=tippet

vincengomes • today at 2:14 AM

Direct Link to the digital archive at Internet Archive -

https://archive.org/details/tippett-archive/

stevage • today at 5:44 AM

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