I mean what she's talking about is not at all a new phenomenon but the attempt to blame it all on The Digital Age is really a kind of newly infuriating twist.
Especially when the choice is between having access to a copy and not having access to the information at all. I just watched a relatively crummy DVR-to-YouTube rip of an absolutely astonishing movie. Am I sorry I saw it on YouTube as opposed to 35 mm? In the sense that a print would look a lot better and would include all of the small fine details that digital generation loss fuzzes out, yes. It would have been nice to see it another way. Would I rather have not seen it at all, holding out for the film itself which may never play near me? Hell, no. I want a legitimate DVD of the thing. I'd have settled for fuzz-less streaming. It's how I watch most of my movies. Copies are democratizing.
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Date: 2018-11-12 07:58 pm (UTC)From:Especially when the choice is between having access to a copy and not having access to the information at all. I just watched a relatively crummy DVR-to-YouTube rip of an absolutely astonishing movie. Am I sorry I saw it on YouTube as opposed to 35 mm? In the sense that a print would look a lot better and would include all of the small fine details that digital generation loss fuzzes out, yes. It would have been nice to see it another way. Would I rather have not seen it at all, holding out for the film itself which may never play near me? Hell, no. I want a legitimate DVD of the thing. I'd have settled for fuzz-less streaming. It's how I watch most of my movies. Copies are democratizing.