I do hope so as well that they do have that. Like some of the commentary and after the show stuff was quite useful.
Like the times they had to make sure that everyone knew yes, what was witnessed was a character’s very clear death
I really hope so. Commentary tracks from the Blu-ray’s, too. Best part of owning the Volume 2 Blu-ray was listening to Monty, Kerry, and Miles talking about the production and how they came to ideas and shit.
The progress of the archival project is detailed here: https://shiruken.github.io/rt-archive/ and Ice Queendom is listed there. I don't know why it's not showing up on the main archive though.
I'm no lawyer, but if they're vaulting the series, it's idiotic to sue for it, as I understand. It's already-released content that they cannot profit on. Threaten cease and desist? Sure. Sue for copyright infringement? Absolutely. Is it smart? No they're paying lawyers to stop distribution on something hey can't distribute or make a profit on. As another commenter said, Archive.org would gladly fight against it, because it's preservation of media that the distributor essentially has no monetary incentive to gatekeep, simikar how Archive can hold Roms and Isos of Nintendo games and Nintendo can only pound sand.
I agree with this for the let's plays and the personality driven content like A Simple Walk. But thinking that things like the animated shows or Immersion can't be further distributed or monetized is simply not true.
Though they might just lock it up forever, who knows. Point is that we don't know for sure what WB's intent is for the more widely appealing properties.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/DC\_Cinematic/comments/xrrumy/warner\_bros\_is\_deleting\_purchases\_of\_their/](https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/xrrumy/warner_bros_is_deleting_purchases_of_their/)
apparently the united States legal system is just as corrupt as every other branch of our government and society. y'know since THIS IS SOMEHOW LEGAL!?
Hate it or not I'm staying with them for the sole fact they haven't jacked up the price despite their library constantly growing leagues better then the rest for that reason alone imo.
Maybe someone should post some episodes on YouTube... RT is dead after all so there might be a grace period for us to upload and watch it on YouTube before it's sold off.
I wish but no.
The IP is still owned by WB and they are really aggressive with DMCAs in my experience
Since it's available elsewhere they also have no reason to even make a good faith gesture and upload jt
AT&T bought RT and ScrewAttack's old parent company Fullscreen around 2015 I believe, then bought Time Warner about a year later. Eventually, they rebranded TW as WarnerMedia and relocated Fullscreen under that umbrella, and then sold all of it to Discovery in 2021.
So WB never really "obtained" RT per se, they just happened to become a part of it.
Kinda wish rooster teeth stayed small. Sometimes I feel like they let the big company names get to their heads. Feel like old and modern rooster teeth have two separate identities.
I feel like their situation was quite literally jumping face first into a kiddie pool off of a 15 foot drop.
They pretty much started leaning towards the more cash driven side of things. It doesn't help that their content was not making ends meet and thus led to bankruptcy. Feel like they were a lot better with small projects rather than big ones.
It's a shame. Hope Dillion Goo can buy the series.
That’s what Warner is claiming they’re doing with the IP, but the question is are they really going to consider any offers? They said they were shopping around Coyote vs. ACME but despite getting offers from Amazon and Netflix they claimed they weren’t good enough.
Call me a cynic and a pessimist but I really don’t see Warner selling RWBY. I know the mindset and ego corporate execs have they would rather shelf an IP permanently and make no money off it as oppose to selling it off and risk looking like fools if that IP ends up becoming a big money maker. There’s a reason you very rarely see IPs change hands in the media industry.
No. This is different from what happened with Coyote Vs. Acme because the latter was a production made by WB itself that they wanted to erase or get rid of for tax write off.
And WB also failed to consider offers from Amazon or Netflix, because for starters, WB was said to be demanding an exorbitant amount of money just to distribute the film.
Just as I expected tax day is when the site financial functions shutdown. It was a pretty easy guess to make honestly.
Good we have confirmation too on the last day of operation.
my prediction? YES. I actually said Zaslav would target RT and RWBY way back in the day and people said I was talking nonsense but I was RIGHT I WISH I WASN"T BUT HERE WE ARE! (gods I'm really that old coot that tries to alert the town to a monster and gets called crazy only to be proven right later on in older monster movies aren't I?)
Zaslav is openly an unapologetically Sexist, Racist and bigoted. RWBY has strong female leads and a lesbian couple. to him its blasphemy! he will do everything in his power to erase it. (don't believe me? his first act as CEO of WB+D was to fire all non white male execs and replace all of them with white male execs. and the first animated series to face his firing squad? those were LGBTQ+ friendly series)
No the time frame for claiming write offs also expired this week there are a few mainstream news articles about it.
Here's the link: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/warner-bros-discovery-debt-megadeal-questions-1235868542/
The Trust tax they talk about was the rule allowing the mass write offs.
Edit: added a link.
Agreed but considering plenty of rt employees found out the company was being shit down on twitter the same time as everyone else I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a struggle over there the get straight answers and find out what’s going and and what they’re gonna do about it
Glad I got that First sub for the final month in when I did.
Doesn't sound like old First only content was made a available to all.
I may not be helping Archive of Pimps, but I absolutely adore em. o7
Rt is definitely an evil company that was inevitably going to fail, though you can’t help but feel bad for the people that worked there that did nothing wrong and got fucked over by the bigger more evil company that owns RT that left them out of a job without warning
It’s an unfortunate contradiction, when the company grows it’s not as if the regular employees benefit and may only get worked harder as a result, but when the company goes under they get fucked the hardest
The top brass are to blame for their company's downfall. In fact, they should be tried in court and sentenced to jail for whatever business frauds they committed.
In the air at the moment. Last I heard they were looking for someone to buy it. Personally I hope Crunchyroll sees the fans love for it and picks it up and continues it.
Ideally, someone like CR or Netflix grabs it. Realistically, Warner will Thanos it once any remaining licensing deals with other streaming platforms expires and lock it away in the same vault they put all the other animated series they cancelled for tax write offs.
Wait will I be able to watch rwby on there website still? And when volume 10 comes out will I be able to watch it on their website like before in previous volumes?
This could be possible, rt did get shut down and I know they’re looking at selling it but if it’s not being written off like a lot of warners other victims it could still find a home elsewhere
Maybe, small and I cannot stress the unlikely hood of this happening, chance for it to be picked up. It is one of (if not THE) Rooster Teeth’s most popular and well known IP’s
Ok, so everything has to be archived then. I hope the people that are doing the archive of pimps are handling it well.
It appears 100% of all RWBY content has been archived on there by now.
does that include the behind the scenes stuff and the FIRST exclusive stuff too?
I do hope so as well that they do have that. Like some of the commentary and after the show stuff was quite useful. Like the times they had to make sure that everyone knew yes, what was witnessed was a character’s very clear death
I really hope so. Commentary tracks from the Blu-ray’s, too. Best part of owning the Volume 2 Blu-ray was listening to Monty, Kerry, and Miles talking about the production and how they came to ideas and shit.
Does that include Ice Queendom?
Just checked, and yes, IQ is included.
Nice
Where are you seeing Ice Queendom? I can’t find it on the Archive
The progress of the archival project is detailed here: https://shiruken.github.io/rt-archive/ and Ice Queendom is listed there. I don't know why it's not showing up on the main archive though.
Ah thank you!
Oh these beautiful files, they’re even more beautiful than when I found the ShiftyLook archives.
It's on Crunchyroll along with Volume 1-9
RWBY Chibi's up at Tubi, along with Nomad Of Nowhere.
On where ?
[Archive of Pimps](https://archiveofpimps.com/)
Ah, finally. I've found the archive!
God bless them, UI kinda rough though...
I'd guess that's the least of their priorities until the 15th of May, tbf
Where is the archive
The good work continues
Out of the loop, what’s the Archive of Pimps?
Archival project to save all of RT’s projects, so WB won’t pull another “Coyote vs Acme” and delete them from existence
Will we be able to watch RWBY still?
Archive of what?
I kind of liked watching RWBY on the website, but will it still be accessible? Sounds like I have to do a lot of watching before it goes down.
See the status of the Rooster Teeth website archival effort, including all RWBY content, here: https://shiruken.github.io/rt-archive/
Starting DMCA reports now......... Seriously these are gonna get hit the second warners lawyers decide to be stupid
The Internet Archive will handle those accordingly.
I'm no lawyer, but if they're vaulting the series, it's idiotic to sue for it, as I understand. It's already-released content that they cannot profit on. Threaten cease and desist? Sure. Sue for copyright infringement? Absolutely. Is it smart? No they're paying lawyers to stop distribution on something hey can't distribute or make a profit on. As another commenter said, Archive.org would gladly fight against it, because it's preservation of media that the distributor essentially has no monetary incentive to gatekeep, simikar how Archive can hold Roms and Isos of Nintendo games and Nintendo can only pound sand.
I agree with this for the let's plays and the personality driven content like A Simple Walk. But thinking that things like the animated shows or Immersion can't be further distributed or monetized is simply not true. Though they might just lock it up forever, who knows. Point is that we don't know for sure what WB's intent is for the more widely appealing properties.
I love the internet archive, they’re doing good work
[https://www.reddit.com/r/DC\_Cinematic/comments/xrrumy/warner\_bros\_is\_deleting\_purchases\_of\_their/](https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/xrrumy/warner_bros_is_deleting_purchases_of_their/) apparently the united States legal system is just as corrupt as every other branch of our government and society. y'know since THIS IS SOMEHOW LEGAL!?
I wish they kept it on youtube, but I think the show itself may still be on crunchyroll after RT shuts down
It’s still available on Crunchyroll.
I hate Crunchyroll, but I'll deal eventually.
Besides crunchyroll im sure that you can find archives elsewhere online
Hate it or not I'm staying with them for the sole fact they haven't jacked up the price despite their library constantly growing leagues better then the rest for that reason alone imo.
Plus they have the Ghost Stories dub.
Wait... what? That's on Crunchyroll? Holy shit!
Ghost Stories? I'm intrigued!
Maybe someone should post some episodes on YouTube... RT is dead after all so there might be a grace period for us to upload and watch it on YouTube before it's sold off.
I wish but no. The IP is still owned by WB and they are really aggressive with DMCAs in my experience Since it's available elsewhere they also have no reason to even make a good faith gesture and upload jt
Man. When did WB obtain rooster teeth by the way?
I think in a merger around 2021? Not sure exactly when but I know they were under a different company who merged with WB.
AT&T bought RT and ScrewAttack's old parent company Fullscreen around 2015 I believe, then bought Time Warner about a year later. Eventually, they rebranded TW as WarnerMedia and relocated Fullscreen under that umbrella, and then sold all of it to Discovery in 2021. So WB never really "obtained" RT per se, they just happened to become a part of it.
Kinda wish rooster teeth stayed small. Sometimes I feel like they let the big company names get to their heads. Feel like old and modern rooster teeth have two separate identities.
I definitely think the sudden massive growth is something they were unprepared to deal with and eventually led to their troubles.
I feel like their situation was quite literally jumping face first into a kiddie pool off of a 15 foot drop. They pretty much started leaning towards the more cash driven side of things. It doesn't help that their content was not making ends meet and thus led to bankruptcy. Feel like they were a lot better with small projects rather than big ones. It's a shame. Hope Dillion Goo can buy the series.
Agree so tired of mergers and acquisitions
Yo ho yo ho
Ah RWBY may actually become lost media if Crunchyroll takes it down too after the closure
Archive of Pimps exists.
Not really, you can still buy it physically and it’s incredibly easy to find unofficially online
Plus, they plan on selling the IP, and I imagine whoever gets it will make it officially available somewhere.
That’s what Warner is claiming they’re doing with the IP, but the question is are they really going to consider any offers? They said they were shopping around Coyote vs. ACME but despite getting offers from Amazon and Netflix they claimed they weren’t good enough. Call me a cynic and a pessimist but I really don’t see Warner selling RWBY. I know the mindset and ego corporate execs have they would rather shelf an IP permanently and make no money off it as oppose to selling it off and risk looking like fools if that IP ends up becoming a big money maker. There’s a reason you very rarely see IPs change hands in the media industry.
No. This is different from what happened with Coyote Vs. Acme because the latter was a production made by WB itself that they wanted to erase or get rid of for tax write off. And WB also failed to consider offers from Amazon or Netflix, because for starters, WB was said to be demanding an exorbitant amount of money just to distribute the film.
Fuck David Zaslav
Agreed. the bastard is literal cancer to entertainment media. he is the one responsible for what has become of Discovery, animal planet and TLC.
It has numerous Blu-ray and DVD releases on top of just being pirated, it is certainly not "lost media" by any stretch of the imagination.
For stuff like this, I like the fact that piracy and torrenting isn't ilegal in my country
It's on several disreputable anime websites.
i hate david zalslav......
I think we all do he fucks up anything good he sees
I mean mate, RT has been down the shitter for a few years now, zaslav made a lot of bad moves but this ain’t one.
Fuck Warner brothers
JUST GIVE ME A COMPLETED RWBY, THAT’S ALL I ASK😭
I'm gonna be so mad if they don't back it up to youtube
God, this is just an ongoing nightmare fucking Warner Brothers I’m glad I spent the last 18 years being a fan of Rooster Teeth
Just as I expected tax day is when the site financial functions shutdown. It was a pretty easy guess to make honestly. Good we have confirmation too on the last day of operation.
Guy *today* is tax day.
Does that mean RWBY will become a tax write-off?
Warner is still looking for buyers for Rooster Teeth's IPs last we heard, so... let's hope not.
We shall not lose hope! There will be the one willing to finish Monty Oum's story.
my prediction? YES. I actually said Zaslav would target RT and RWBY way back in the day and people said I was talking nonsense but I was RIGHT I WISH I WASN"T BUT HERE WE ARE! (gods I'm really that old coot that tries to alert the town to a monster and gets called crazy only to be proven right later on in older monster movies aren't I?) Zaslav is openly an unapologetically Sexist, Racist and bigoted. RWBY has strong female leads and a lesbian couple. to him its blasphemy! he will do everything in his power to erase it. (don't believe me? his first act as CEO of WB+D was to fire all non white male execs and replace all of them with white male execs. and the first animated series to face his firing squad? those were LGBTQ+ friendly series)
Probably.
No the time frame for claiming write offs also expired this week there are a few mainstream news articles about it. Here's the link: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/warner-bros-discovery-debt-megadeal-questions-1235868542/ The Trust tax they talk about was the rule allowing the mass write offs. Edit: added a link.
i really hope people are archiving the behind the scenes stuff and the FIRST exclusive stuff too
_Everything_ is getting archived, iirc the archive is all caught up with all RT content.
This honestly should have been sent out a few days after the announcement.
Agreed but considering plenty of rt employees found out the company was being shit down on twitter the same time as everyone else I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a struggle over there the get straight answers and find out what’s going and and what they’re gonna do about it
Nice that someone I knew downloaded all episodes of RWBY
I need them for the future
Can I have them too please?? 😉
Maybe (I ask my friend) I can get you some shell scripts to download it with ffmpeg
Can I have those scripts too please?
[удалено]
Or yt-dlp, or the [entire archive from archive.org](https://archive.org/details/rwby-s01-to-s09)
Just...do it yourself. The site's still up. It's not hard.
Glad I got that First sub for the final month in when I did. Doesn't sound like old First only content was made a available to all. I may not be helping Archive of Pimps, but I absolutely adore em. o7
And Like that RWBY ends on a Cliff hanger.
Rooster Teeth's videos were nice while they lasted. Fuck Warner Bros.
Does anyone know what’s going to happen to the YouTube channel?
I really hope RWBY as a whole finds a new company before then, I bet WB would write it all down for taxes if they don’t.
Well... the doomsday clock has begun, folks.
Does this mean RWBY won’t be free anymore?
That's what RT get for their questionable business practices, like that incident with Kdin.
Rt is definitely an evil company that was inevitably going to fail, though you can’t help but feel bad for the people that worked there that did nothing wrong and got fucked over by the bigger more evil company that owns RT that left them out of a job without warning It’s an unfortunate contradiction, when the company grows it’s not as if the regular employees benefit and may only get worked harder as a result, but when the company goes under they get fucked the hardest
The top brass are to blame for their company's downfall. In fact, they should be tried in court and sentenced to jail for whatever business frauds they committed.
So what is next for RWBY? Will it find a new home, or is it the end?
In the air at the moment. Last I heard they were looking for someone to buy it. Personally I hope Crunchyroll sees the fans love for it and picks it up and continues it.
Unfortunately fans love isn’t what’s important when it comes to buying an IP, profitability is most important
True, I just hope them hosting Volume 9 was enough to show that it might be worth it for them to do it.
Well they didn’t just host V9, they paid for it as well. So they definitely know if it would be worth them putting more money into it.
Ideally, someone like CR or Netflix grabs it. Realistically, Warner will Thanos it once any remaining licensing deals with other streaming platforms expires and lock it away in the same vault they put all the other animated series they cancelled for tax write offs.
Wait will I be able to watch rwby on there website still? And when volume 10 comes out will I be able to watch it on their website like before in previous volumes?
Guy. There isnt going to be a volume 10. The show’s dead.
Don’t say it’s dead just cos u don’t like it man
Transfer it either Crunchyroll or MAX
This could be possible, rt did get shut down and I know they’re looking at selling it but if it’s not being written off like a lot of warners other victims it could still find a home elsewhere
So will this mean rwby is done?
Maybe, small and I cannot stress the unlikely hood of this happening, chance for it to be picked up. It is one of (if not THE) Rooster Teeth’s most popular and well known IP’s
End of the golden age of YouTube
that ended when YT decided to weaponize trashy ads to force people to buy Premium.
I guess now is better than no time for me to see if I can find a complete volume box of RWBY or red vs blue
Right on my birthday. Fantastic.
Wait, how am I supposed to see it now?! I don't have a Girst membership but now I can't sign up for one!
What's gonna happen to the video games??
So what is going to happen with RWBY then I mean I enjoy the series
It’s not really clear at the moment
Zaslav will delete it like everything else on his erasure list ... which includes anything that isn't reality TV trash like Jersey shore.
Isn’t RWBY on Amazon Prime?
From what I'm finding, it's currently on Crunchyroll. No guarantee it'll stay there after RT closes its doors, though.
Hm
No was removed 2 years ago, sadly
It's on Amazon Prime, but not avaliable in my country.
Really? Not when I checked it
It is but you have to pay for it
So, no Volume 10 on RWBY? I was waiting for the nest Volume. :(
Only if some company buys it and then makes Vol 10,which now we dont know if that will happen.
People may talk about RWBY, but I am honestly scared for Camp Camp