Who pays for the storage? Who pays for the servers? Who does upkeep? What about any media that state deems harmful or illegal?
Pirates have been doing a better job keeping media alive than any state of government ever will. Governments can be corrupted. Pirates are a decentralized collective.
Private collections will be how legacy media lives on. Not through some state sponsored bullshit.
The national government pays for storage and bandwidth and so on, financed by pay-per-view. Harmful and illegal material will most likely not make the cut but most old movies, old cartoon shows, old talk shows and interviews and so on will be available to the public.
This is both for entertainment and research, optionally they can make a library card add-on to have it as a subscription.
Current services are all in their own corner and often don’t have old content such as dubbed cartoons from people’s childhood.
Piracy is also limited, finding rugrats in a Scandinavian language is pretty much impossible.
I think you’ve made their point. In your original post you say “all media”. In this one the media has to “make the cut”. Who decides where the line is? Different groups of people have different lines and group 2 could purge all the media group 1 saved because they feel it is indecent.
Is Rocky Horror Picture Show worth saving? Some groups will say yes while others no and when it first came out the no group was a lot bigger.
Pink Flamingos is currently preserved by the U.S. National Film Registry, selected in 2021. If selection was happening even a couple years from now, I have a hard time imagining that happening.
There’s some countries OP’s model could work in. But at least a dual model that includes citizen preservation efforts is warranted (and with it the relevant legislation to avoid it being a criminal act - though pirates gonna pirate, and I love 'em for it).
Even porn? I’ve had a discussion at work recently about how crazy it is that media conservation often overlooks porn as something of “no value”, so it becomes lost media almost instantly, especially now in the age of streaming.
But I bet that future anthropologists would be really interested in studying it!
Like the old Playboy videos that have mostly disappeared.
