Recently, l have been thinking about the recent news relating to the Phantom Blood OVA and how the file containing the film have been recently downloaded for a brief period of time among Japanese users. This news has made me wonder how many other pieces of lost media could just be hanging around in the deep parts of the internet, only to forgotten about or getting lost once again. Any Examples?
I've discovered there's a lot of lost media that was on Usenet at one point but since most well-known indexers like Easynews only go back so far a lot of TV shows on there aren't availible unless you go to an indexer with a really long retention rate and those indexers are invite-only and like most private trackers require you to know someone to get an invite.
The UPN show Cuts only has a few episodes on Youtube but according to sites like Predb the entire series was once on Usenet in the mid-2000s so i'll bet there's plenty of other "lost" shows floating around those private indexers.