[HN Gopher] Why do studios use Roman numerals in the copyright n...
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       Why do studios use Roman numerals in the copyright notice in the
       end credits?
        
       Author : Lammy
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2023-04-23 22:31 UTC (28 minutes ago)
        
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       | causality0 wrote:
       | _to "make it difficult for viewers to determine exactly how old
       | the show is", the reason being the older the date the "staler"
       | the material may seem to the audience._
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       | That might be the most inane take I've heard all week. What's his
       | idea, that movie theaters predating the concept of home video
       | were showing old movies and trying to pass them off as new like
       | nobody would notice if they couldn't read the copyright date?
       | Specifically movies the audience hasn't seen or heard of, yet
       | movies new enough their "staleness" wouldn't be given away by the
       | camera technology and dialogue choices? There's like a hundred
       | different reasons this "deception" explanation is nonsense.
        
       | User23 wrote:
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       | mattl wrote:
       | I was always told it was done because it was historically done
       | that way.
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       | It looked classy in the 1920s.
        
       | ofalkaed wrote:
       | I find it humorous that people think this is some sort of
       | deception when it is probably simple tradition. Roman numerals
       | used to be common and are still used in many places like for
       | preface/introduction in many books, is that also some sort of
       | deception? they could certainly used 0-<page number> for that or
       | even a different font if they needed to separate it from the
       | pagination of the text but they use these confusing Roman
       | numerals instead.
        
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