It's also total bullshit how they can just film in a public street and include anyone that happens to pass by in their movie without paying them, in fact they won't even warn you if you're about to walk into a shoot and definitely won't respond to requests to remove your face if you end up in the final movie. But as soon as a famous person's face gets shown they demand royalties and can even force people to destroy footage of them.

So what they’re saying is VCRs ruined everything.

Great article. I highly recommend Corey Doctorow’s book called ‘Enshittification’ for more on this phenomenon