This is just your personal issue, doesn’t apply to others. Although the process you’re doing is too excessive with the sorting and such.

Paywalled article: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/nov/11/lost-doctor-who-episodes-found-owner-reluctant-to-hand-them-to-bbc

You mean merge with kioxia? In this article it says it was rejected