How would film be any different in any capacity whatsoever?

Believe it or not, what matters here is the message and access to the message, not the medium.

The medium obviously matters. One was designed to be cheap and mass produced. Almost anything published has copies in the hundreds or thousands at least and the chances you are concerning yourself with the 'last copy' of some valuable information you can't get elsewhere is minuscle. Film most certainly was not like that.