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What is sad about this is a lot of things that were created in the early 1900s will now be lost forever since copies cannot be made and archiving the works on a
by nkassis 15y ago
What is sad about this is a lot of things that were created in the early 1900s will now be lost forever since copies cannot be made and archiving the works on a different medium would infringe copyright. Trying to get the rights for those things is impossible since the owners are dead. So we are going to loose a lot of early music recordings, film and books from that period.
- wyungwhn 15y agoWhenever a revolution was successful in ancient China, the winner would burn the historical and cultural records of the loser, to prevent the old order from reorganizing and reviving. I see this as a slower version of that tactic, letting context and criticisms rot away, while your own carefully cultivated "history" becomes all that remains.