The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library

404 Media's Claire Woodcock writes:IP disputes are fueling the shift, too.The report notes how rights and licensing battles are making some films harder to access -- from titles that quietly slip out of commercial circulation, to streaming-only releases that never make it to disc, to entire shows vanishing during mergers like HBO Max-Discovery+. One prominent example is The People's Joker, which was briefly pulled from the Toronto International Film Festival over a conflict with Batman's rightsholders.Situations like that are pushing librarians to grab physical copies while they still can, before these works risk disappearing altogether.