ZWG Poor Image Responce

This reading focused primarily on what the author says are "poor images," (images that, through time or being reformatted over and over again, lose quality and deteriorate). One of the main points that I find interesting is the author's points of view on piracy and P2P file sharing, and how that has interacted with both capitalist mainstream cinema as well as smaller, student films that didn't get much (if any) exposure in the mainstream in the past. 

Before the Internet, these smaller movies were all but lost, passed around on film reels or VHS tapes in small circles of people dedicated to exactly this purpose. An elitist concept, one that bars so many from access to it with no accessible way for the average person to experience these films. Now, they can be passed around on the fly through social media, youtube, etc. It's all at people's fingertips, but it being ripped and reuploaded and reformatted so many times also runs the risk of the integrity of the piece being lost, through a loss in resolution or diminished audio quality, lack of proper credits, etc. 

It makes me wonder how we can find a balance, where we do not have to sacrifice quality for accessibility, and vice versa.