Software can be kept going with some maintenance investment. If you built it, you can keep it running for as long as you like.
A movie or tv show, on the other hand, is a complex web of rights and contracts. The initial launch aligns everyone’s interests, but releasing it in new countries or on new media types requires business and legal discussion. If it’s worth it, it’ll happen.
Each one of those agreements is also time-limited, and so if you do nothing you can still end up with a title that is too much trouble to keep around.
(All the above is speculative wrt these titles in particular. But go look at Moonlighting as a tv show that was blocked for many years due to this)
Funny that the technical reality is the inverse, i.e. media is read-only and storage/playback is now trivial beyond availability, software is executable and requires a degree of active maintenance.
Both storage (and retrieval) and playback are based on software.
Basically, the recording is in an obscure video format. People at the NSA can’t easily watch it, so they can’t redact it. So they won’t do anything. [0]
Nope. That would require both rationality (extremely unlikely) and perfect information (impossible)
The reality is that it's somewhat more likely to happen if everybody involved thinks it's a good idea, and one reason (but only one) they might think that is because they believe "it's worth it" whatever their understanding of that is. But never certain, and equally, never impossible. Messy.
Sure, this is the real world of humans after all. Or more precisely, it is the fake real world of Hollywood humans. That said, having actual money on the line does have a way of clarifying people's thinking...sometimes.
Software can be kept going with some maintenance investment. If you built it, you can keep it running for as long as you like.
A movie or tv show, on the other hand, is a complex web of rights and contracts. The initial launch aligns everyone’s interests, but releasing it in new countries or on new media types requires business and legal discussion. If it’s worth it, it’ll happen.
Each one of those agreements is also time-limited, and so if you do nothing you can still end up with a title that is too much trouble to keep around.
(All the above is speculative wrt these titles in particular. But go look at Moonlighting as a tv show that was blocked for many years due to this)