> After all, if you can’t buy it, you’re not depriving the creator of revenue.
Once the copyright for most media stopped being owned by artists and started being owned by corporations there was a lot of value in keeping artistic works locked up by copyright and legally inaccessible to the pubic.
Mostly, it means that companies don't have to worry about old things competing for the time/attention of the people they want spending money on their new things. It also lets them amass huge catalogues of out of print media that can be sold or traded.
It's just one more way that our modern copyright system has been corrupted to work against its original goals, all so that corporations with vast fortunes can get even richer by robbing us of our own culture.
Once the copyright for most media stopped being owned by artists and started being owned by corporations there was a lot of value in keeping artistic works locked up by copyright and legally inaccessible to the pubic.
Mostly, it means that companies don't have to worry about old things competing for the time/attention of the people they want spending money on their new things. It also lets them amass huge catalogues of out of print media that can be sold or traded.
It's just one more way that our modern copyright system has been corrupted to work against its original goals, all so that corporations with vast fortunes can get even richer by robbing us of our own culture.