It does if you think about films, TV shows, music, etc not as cultural artifacts that we should all have access to, but as commodities that corporations seek to own and profit from. Sometimes it does make more sense from their perspective to bury shit.
But if it’s streaming and available, then they have to pay the people involved in its creation - this is precisely why tons of stuff disappeared off HBO max or whatever the fuck it’s called now. They don’t want to pay the people whose work it is… If they can’t be the sole financial beneficiaries of these “products”, then no one should be. Better to cut their loses and use it to save on taxes… this is part of the reason that the writers are on strike!
I’ve been saying for years that we should probably be a bit wary of the early internet era claims that the internet was going to make all of the world’s information easily accessible. I think the past 20 years shows what happens when you make all of your information digital, but you’re still in a capitalist society. It’s gonna get treated like a commodity, not something we all have the right to access.
