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[nonelvis]

Guaranteed to be of interest to several people on my flist: a complete box set of Daria will be out on DVD on May 11. (Sadly, it sounds like it might be Region 1 only for now, but that's what region-free DVD players are for.)

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[ms-prue.livejournal.com]

Gah! Thank you so much for posting this! Best. News. Ever. I loved Daria so much back in high school, but then it disappeared off tv and out of my head until I saw some Daria caps on tumblr the other day. And then I felt a terrible sadness that I would probably never see the show again. UNTIL NOW! XD

[nonelvis]

Apparently there are torrents available, but I'd rather have the DVDs, and not just because they're less suspicious to my ISP than a multi-gig file transfer.

[ms-prue.livejournal.com]

Yah, I've never got the torrent thing. I'm old fashioned: tv is for the tv and intertubes are for the computer and never the twain shall meet. Honestly though, I'm surprised that Viacom's marketing department and their brethren haven't realised what a goldmine they have in their back catalogue. I mean, releasing shit is their job. How hard is it to just make everything available so we don't have to break the freaking law to watch stuff we love?
Sorry, that was a bit ranty :D

[nonelvis]

Often it isn't a matter of "hard" so much as "expensive" because of rights issues. For example, apparently the Daria DVDs won't have some of the original music -- it was just too expensive to purchase the rights for DVD release.

But otherwise, I'm right there with you -- the more they release, the happier I am.