This sucks.
When preserving culture is criminal, or punishable, ya might want to reevaluate your laws
In the meantime, people are gonna do it anyway 'cause why ask permission to back up and preserve your own stuff? And when the law finally catches up, some will be grateful to those that did so despite the earlier wrongful laws that tried to discourage them.
we also should be supporting open source games—if it’s open source, it’s preservable! these people are already essentially giving up any revenue just to make something for someone else, we should be lifting them up, too!
gee thanks, glad I get fair representation on the laws in the ‘land of the free’
Only if you match whoever the actual electors pick as president. Then yes.
We’ll just continue to do it anyway.
Book = story
Movie = video story
Game = interactive story
The fuck, fellas?!
the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) which claimed preservation supporters like the VGHF “[did] not propose a clear requirement to know who the users are or why they want to access a game.” Likewise, it suggested those lack of requirements meant supporters aimed to “reserve almost complete discretion in how they would provide access to preserve[d] games.”
Stingy. You fucks don’t make money with it anymore.
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A lot of those games are still around, just not in legal distribution channels.
The more at-risk stuff is newer games going forward, such as live-service games or games locked down with DRM that requires authentication to play.
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I can see why the ESA would want to defend IP
You shouldn’t, because the entire concept is a lie.
Fuck isn’t this what the Internet archive relied on???
https://help.copyright.gov/contact/s/contact-form
You should also contact your local representatives across the federal government.
