entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones

This, pretty much. I didn't take the comic as a justification, so much as a symptom of something I see all the goddamn time, from publishers who refuse to get into e-books at all (which is incredibly stupid of them) to companies that sit on something forever because they can't make money off it. Dude, if that's the case, put it in the public domain and let someone else have a go.

Ironically, being a librarian may be turning me into one of those screw-copyright-and-its-bedfellows people.