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> The entertainment industry has a lot of people who just want to get their job done and go home, just like any other industry. I think another reason, in addi
by bayindirh 2y ago
> The entertainment industry has a lot of people who just want to get their job done and go home, just like any other industry.
I think another reason, in addition to yours, is that the entertainment industry sees their products are disposable, or want them to be disposable. This way they can pull the drain plug from the pool, so they can pump in new content into it. Otherwise, listening same good old songs will inevitably eat into profitability of the new releases, because you can watch/listen for so long in a given time.
BTW, I don't share the same views with "the entertainment industry". You can't get the good old albums from my cold, dead hands.
- anjel 2y agoResiduals as quite lucrative potenial income stream argue to the contrary.
- happycube 2y agoThat made me think of Law and Order (since I remember reading that day players want to get on those shows for the residuals), and I saw a relatively early episode of SVU on a rerun that looked freshly shot.
- ElevenLathe 2y agoI work in gaming and this is very much the same attitude, though it is starting to change: with things like Xbox Game Pass, there are now theoretically revenues to be skimmed from older releases via subscription revenues, so there is at least lip service paid to proper archiving of working files and source code. It's still tough to make the case not to phone home or rely on publisher-hosted services.