Simon Dillon
Jul 30, 2023

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I still believe streaming - like all other challenges faced by cinema over the decades, including television, VHS, DVD, Blu Ray home cinema systems, etc - will eventually lose its novelty. Regarding home viewing, it is doubly true because unlike VHS, DVD, and so on, viewers don't own the films, they just own a subscription to a streaming service. They are starting to realise this means films can disappear due to copyright. They can also be posthumously censored or "cancelled" when this or that celebrity breathes in the wrong direction. I've been warning about this for years, and now people are starting to realise.

More here, if you're interested in an importance of physical media tangent: https://fanfare.pub/own-nothing-and-be-happy-no-thanks-d7298e51f594

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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon

Written by Simon Dillon

Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com

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