Rip my childhood of CN's flash games (I never solved thr scooby doo rpg with the underwater pyramid). I wonder if that flash Cyberchase RPG on PBS Kids is still online...
Why... just why? It might help the studio save money in the short term, but they risk undermining its long-term brand
Most of it is fortunately preserved on the hard drives of many pirates
It's a pitty! On the other hand If someone scraps the website to preserve as history, they'll go after and will apply a DMCA takedown.
Impermanence is a problem. The main information substrate of society is based on media that - unlike books or print - needs sustained economic investments after creation just for it's continued existence, a problem often made worse by a single publisher point of failure.-
Until we "fix" this, or find a permanence solution, entire swathes of culture will keep vanishing wholesale, until nothing remains on record from our age - a dark age, or gap - when seen from the future, looking back. Hindsight will only find a void - AIs, perhaps, our only remaining collective memory from this age up to an age where information permanence is widespread and solved.-