Ooh! I hope your device works as advertised! I definitely agree about the deeply awkward ethics of sharing those files online, however, and I agree - I don't think I'd personally be comfortable doing it, especially since, yeah, there's no way to credit people, and the only credit you would be able to give in any case are real names! But at the same time, it's terribly sad to think of all the work the creators put into them, and no one ever being able to see them.
(Although, yeah, I can't see why private DVD exchange would not be entirely okay - and personally I would absolutely LOVE to have a DVD if you ever do digitize them - I'd be happy to reciprocate in some other way, if I can!)
It's kind of an ongoing problem with vids, really, because even the online ones disappear all the time. I'm glad I've saved so many of them to my hard drive over the years, because nearly all of the ones from the early fandoms I got into are now gone, and even some of the more recent ones have vanished. When I got into Highlander, it was an utter exercise in frustration trying to find vids, although I *was* pleasantly surprised to discover several vidders who had been in the fandom since the show had aired on TV and went to the trouble of digitizing or remastering their vids and putting them online! But most of my favorite vidders from my days in Stargate Atlantis fandom - about 2006-2008 - have now disappeared, and their vids along with them. And that's not even that long ago!
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(Although, yeah, I can't see why private DVD exchange would not be entirely okay - and personally I would absolutely LOVE to have a DVD if you ever do digitize them - I'd be happy to reciprocate in some other way, if I can!)
It's kind of an ongoing problem with vids, really, because even the online ones disappear all the time. I'm glad I've saved so many of them to my hard drive over the years, because nearly all of the ones from the early fandoms I got into are now gone, and even some of the more recent ones have vanished. When I got into Highlander, it was an utter exercise in frustration trying to find vids, although I *was* pleasantly surprised to discover several vidders who had been in the fandom since the show had aired on TV and went to the trouble of digitizing or remastering their vids and putting them online! But most of my favorite vidders from my days in Stargate Atlantis fandom - about 2006-2008 - have now disappeared, and their vids along with them. And that's not even that long ago!