"We’re living through an age of mass deletion, a moment when entertainment and media corporations see themselves not as custodians of valuable cultural history, once freely available, but as ruthless maximisers of profit." @zachschonfeld.bsky.social
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That's why I use and recommend physical media. Analogic, if possible.
Printed books, old-school film and photos, vinyl records, with proper storage/care will last way longer w/o depending on a provider that can go belly-up or erase your stuff on a whim.
Also, can be passed to family/friends, no DMCA
its the spite of which Sears/Kmart For Video Games erased the entirety of Game Informer's website and dispersed their decades of video game treasure to the winds that gets me.
Netflix DVD-by-Mail's big advantage over video stores, besides convenience, was that they had All The Movies.
Including the current ones your video store was out of, and all the random old ones they had, and all the ones they didn't.
Their streaming service no longer has all that backstock.
This, pretty much. You and I both know what others around us didn't seem willing to look at: if it's not on media you *own*, your access to it can be blocked at any time, for any reason.
Exactly! And was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a manual.
Even if we disconsider malice for a moment, an all-digital library of books, movies, music etc. sitting on the "cloud" is always one blackout away from inaccessible.
Future archaeologists will think our society collapsed by 2005 or so.
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Printed books, old-school film and photos, vinyl records, with proper storage/care will last way longer w/o depending on a provider that can go belly-up or erase your stuff on a whim.
Also, can be passed to family/friends, no DMCA
Anyway, I'm back on the high seas.
like, that's not indifference, thats malice.
Including the current ones your video store was out of, and all the random old ones they had, and all the ones they didn't.
Their streaming service no longer has all that backstock.
Or the content can be simply "retired".
(For instance.)
Even if we disconsider malice for a moment, an all-digital library of books, movies, music etc. sitting on the "cloud" is always one blackout away from inaccessible.
Future archaeologists will think our society collapsed by 2005 or so.
There’s a chunk of pre-70s original TV/Movie film that was destroyed in fires, allowed to rot in storage or recycled/spliced up.
Early seasons/episodes of Doctor Who famously lost to time.