Good morning. I wrote an essay for The Guardian about the perilous state of film and media preservation in 2024—the wiping of archives, the deletion of completed movies, etc. I argue that the corporate disregard for cultural history is a growing emergency: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Every technological advance - film to video, video to disc, disc to digital - sees a tremendous amount of material discarded. Which is an absolute disgrace

Yeah but AI will just write new movies that are even better! /sarcasm

It's been a bit weird watching download piracy move from "don't want to pay for stuff" to "part of a distributed effort to save our cultural record from capitalism".

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