Internet-casting also upends the significance of the archive. For conventional companies, archives are an expensive problem: they need curating, maintenance, storage space, and no-one can ever judge what will be significant in the future. They are expensive luxuries.
In the internet distribution model, archives become ever more accessible, and valuable.
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