2d ago

Stop Killing Games is on the front page of Wikipedia

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Outlets like the BBC regularly reused film stock and destroyed their archives. Many episodes of old shows like Dr. Who (the first season especially) are lost media due to this practice. The show's were considered like stage plays: performed once, broadcast, and the money was made. For how "innovative" capitalism is, it took the corpos decades to realize the latent value of media IP.
The ongoing push towards *AAS is the backlash to realizing that physical media gave consumers a permanent version of things. They actually prefer it under the broadcast model where you got what they felt like putting out and liked it.
My point is that capitalism and culture are fundamentally incompatible. The illusion that capitalism has culture is only because it steals culture from the people who actually create it by alienating us from the process of creation (automation, assembly lines, AI, etc) and then using IP law to claim ownership over the artifacts of culture, which they sell back to us. The owner class have never been good stewards of anything.
- We also literally lost much of the original Apollo Program footage because NASA had to re use a bunch of memory tapes.
  https://www.npr.org/2009/07/16/106637066/houston-we-erased-the-apollo-11-tapes
  NPR, from all the way back in 2009, before renewed interest in going back to the Moon also kickstarted a new wave of conspiricism around this topic.
  ...
  But yeah, a lot of people don't realize that if a successful assertion of more reasonable digital property rights can be achieved here, with video games... it could massively lessen the ability of tech corporations and all other industries of all kinds to turn the entire goddamn economy into having a digital/computer subscription component.
  It sounds stupid, but a significant win here could actually stymie the encroaching corporate neofeudalism (where we own nothing and rent everything, according to EULAs and TOSs that can change at any moment) that otherwise seems destined to be our future.

Yeah but look at that bunny also!
- The bun felt the chill of games being destroyed.