For me, ________ is basically all sports games that have ever been broadcast. Most of them are just locked away somewhere, with literally no legal way for anyone to see them.
For me, ________ is basically all sports games that have ever been broadcast. Most of them are just locked away somewhere, with literally no legal way for anyone to see them.
Libraries = you have a fundamental right to free media
The precedent is already established. Piracy is the modern library. Media and software ownership needs to be something like 3 years from public release. No, you can’t make one cool thing and exploit that for 100 years, and you can’t milk your mediocrity either. If your BS sucks, everyone will just wait for 3 years to consume it for free. So what, you suck at your job and need to find other work. If all software was open source after 3 years, the entire world would advance much more quickly and equally. Capitalism only works if everyone can enter, no one is too big to fail, and the consolidation is a guaranteed failure.
The infuriating thing is, I truly believe the dragons would make more money if they conceded to everything you just said. As it stands, collector’s style box sets still make a lot of money, and everyone knows that merch is where the really sweet cash gets raked in.
If they just hosted basically everything on the Internet, for everyone to watch, for free, that would massively increase the mindshare install base of all their media, which would make way more people likely to buy shirts, bobbleheads, posters, etc.
The profit margins on that stuff = ABSOLUTELY VAST, BEYOND ALL BELIEF. And the fucked up thing is, you sometimes DO see official merch being sold for properties that can’t be legally watched, anywhere. You already paid for that show to be made, possibly 60 years ago. You could increase those merch sales any time you want, just by letting people see it.
But dragons are gonna dragon. Hoarding behavior.