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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social ("Sarah Dal") wrote:
I had no idea about this - the company Historic England outsourced digital image provision to has gone bust. There is no way for the public to now access the images. Absolute travesty
https://www.sarsen.org/2026/09/historic-englands-photos-didnt-vanish.html?m=1
"SmartFrame did not store the Archive. It streamed it: zoom, captions, right-click protection, screenshot blocking, anti-scrape. A public body wrapped a national collection in a start-up’s DRM. When the start-up died, the pictures went with it"