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testing22321today at 2:54 AM2 repliesview on HN

You could film and put it on your tv, but you couldn’t create and distribute to the medium at large


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kombookchatoday at 5:01 AM

Not with the same reach, but some people kinda could! Specifics depended on where you were in the world, but it existed and to some extent still does. In spite of a very rough decade and a half since 2010 culling many of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-access_television https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_television_in_Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swindon_Viewpoint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_television_in_Austra...

Jtariitoday at 10:41 AM

Weirdo eccentrics sure found a way to distribute their shot on home video b-movies.