2008/10/5 Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net:
I would never treat this sort of thing as a hoax. It is probably happening more frequently than we would like to believe. The BBC's dumping of a lot of old "Dr. Who" episodes falls into this.
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Not very comparable. The BBC archive wasn't meant to form a complete store of what they had broadcast but what they could reuse. Contracts meant that much of the material could not be reused.