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Not to mention streaming/digital media is going to kill off actually good movies and content. This isn't the technology's fault mind you, but the streamers' bus

by 23B1 2y ago

Not to mention streaming/digital media is going to kill off actually good movies and content. This isn't the technology's fault mind you, but the streamers' business model, but you could rely upon residuals via DVD sales for movies back in the day and that money is gone, which eliminates the safety margin required to take risks. It's why I can't stand the 'information wants to be free' argument. Where the hell do you think that intellectual labor required comes from, the aether?

liontwist 2y ago
The market for low budget DVDs would still be smaller without streaming because the entertainment market is more competitive.
mindslight 2y ago
> It's why I can't stand the 'information wants to be free' argument. Where the hell do you think that intellectual labor required comes from, the aether? Assuming your goal is to understand - yes, that thinking is a product of time when people were altruistically publishing very high quality content on the web. The time before adspam, blogspam, llmspam, etc. You could punch queries into search engines and find no-nonsense sites with detailed information, not trying to sell you anything but rather just wanting to be the most complete resource about a certain topic. I'm not saying that ethos works for million dollar movie production. But on the other hand the ethos of people needing to be paid evidently doesn't work for high quality informational content, given that it has all but disappeared in the torrent of commercialized/intermediated spam.
Pet_Ant 2y ago
> 'information wants to be free' This wasn't meant to be a moral argument. It's not the information yearns for liberation and we ought to provide it. It's a physics analogy. Like a ball 'wants' to roll downhill. Free is the lowest entropy state of information.

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Not to mention streaming/digital media is going to kill off actually good movies and content. This isn't the technology's fault mind you, but the streamers' bus

by 23B1 2y ago

liontwist 2y ago
The market for low budget DVDs would still be smaller without streaming because the entertainment market is more competitive.
mindslight 2y ago
> It's why I can't stand the 'information wants to be free' argument. Where the hell do you think that intellectual labor required comes from, the aether? Assuming your goal is to understand - yes, that thinking is a product of time when people were altruistically publishing very high quality content on the web. The time before adspam, blogspam, llmspam, etc. You could punch queries into search engines and find no-nonsense sites with detailed information, not trying to sell you anything but rather just wanting to be the most complete resource about a certain topic. I'm not saying that ethos works for million dollar movie production. But on the other hand the ethos of people needing to be paid evidently doesn't work for high quality informational content, given that it has all but disappeared in the torrent of commercialized/intermediated spam.
Pet_Ant 2y ago
> 'information wants to be free' This wasn't meant to be a moral argument. It's not the information yearns for liberation and we ought to provide it. It's a physics analogy. Like a ball 'wants' to roll downhill. Free is the lowest entropy state of information.