# Public domain

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/public-domain/854413>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [September 21, 2023, 6:14am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/public-domain/854413 "2023-09-21T06:14:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![publicarchives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c67d28/32.png) [@publicarchives](https://forums.plex.tv/u/publicarchives)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 6:14am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/public-domain/854413/1 "2023-09-21T06:14:50Z")

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[https://archive.org/](https://archive.org/) a way to pull all information together so people can look it up and add to their own collection so then it takes up less time and space of available so then you can pull other files or way to upload files Ike YouTube to help with managing space on computer

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**Author:** ![publicarchives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c67d28/32.png) [@publicarchives](https://forums.plex.tv/u/publicarchives)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 6:39am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/public-domain/854413/2 "2023-09-21T06:39:30Z")

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Take for example I have following  
Andy Griffith show it’s on public domain same with Walker Texas ranger [https://archive.org/details/walker-texas-ranger-complete-series](https://archive.org/details/walker-texas-ranger-complete-series)  
Leave it to beaver  
[https://archive.org/details/LeaveItToBeaverSeason1](https://archive.org/details/LeaveItToBeaverSeason1)  
Green Acres  
[https://archive.org/details/GreenAcresCompleteSeries](https://archive.org/details/GreenAcresCompleteSeries)  
Etc by pulling from public domainyou don’t have to waste valuable space

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/public-domain/854413/3 "2023-09-21T15:21:46Z")

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Thanks for your suggestion. There’s already an existing thread discussing an option to add a STRM file to your library that can point to media available on a specific URL/path (instead of downloading it). I suppose with such a feature you could also point your library to the public domain videos on [archive.org](http://archive.org) (but I suppose they have a wider use case in mind).

> [@\[REQ\] ADD STRM Support](https://forums.plex.tv/t/req-add-strm-support/233521):
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> Taken from: [STRM support - General Discussions - Plex Forum](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/317877/strm-support)@jinxy88 said: This is a huge huge request for plex developers, please add STRM support back into Plex. People with huge libraries using gdrive as a source would love this feature. Emby allready added this feature and its starting to get a lot of attention since it did, because there are scripts that just passthrough the STRM to the client, thus getting rid of transcoding, wasting precious resources, and everything gets direct play…

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**Author:** ![publicarchives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c67d28/32.png) [@publicarchives](https://forums.plex.tv/u/publicarchives)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/public-domain/854413/4 "2023-09-21T16:36:14Z")

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I just want easy way to copy and paste it and have it read directly automatically pulling things

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**Author:** ![publicarchives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c67d28/32.png) [@publicarchives](https://forums.plex.tv/u/publicarchives)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 5:34pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/public-domain/854413/5 "2023-09-21T17:34:49Z")

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![IMG_1954](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/1/7/b/17b135090ce61c4c7416c41322cdbae247cf4c85.jpeg)  
Last I want to say add it here because it’s one place that pulls into your library
