The longer the WGA and the SAG strikes go on the more I notice that the media landscape has changed dramatically, and I haven’t seen much discussing it.
YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok have taken a huge chunk of the audience that might have watched.
Video Games have taken a huge rise, to the point that the Video Game Industry is bigger than the Film Industry now.
Hell the writers strike in 07-08 was still in a pre-smartphone era.
It’s just interesting how much media consumption has changed.
Only 13 percent of video games are readily playable and accessible. No other form of media is as endangered as video games. There is no legal path to preserve or archive video games. You can go to libraries and archives for books years out of print. You can rent a movie or download a pdf. There is no legal equivalent for video games. Games companies do not double as archival organisations and they never will. They have never been about preserving. They are about selling. Which is not inherently evil compared to anyone else but they along with the law are directly preventing archivers and preservationists from doing their job and allowing this entire medium to be experienced in the future.
Think of some of the most influential video games of all time. How many of them can you play right now. Without piracy. How many of these could your not very technology literate friend play. How do you think this is affecting not only the wider industry now but also people in the future. And for completely arbitrary meaningless reasons.
If they aren’t accessible from the copyright holders then the copyright shouldn’t be recognized. That goes for all types of art too, no matter the source.
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