You've seen the study going around saying that only 13% of games released before 2010 are still commercially available. The Video Game History Foundation intends to cite this data to try to change copyright law to favor preservation over corporate interests, and I wish them well.
While we're waiting for hell to freeze over, there is a moral imperative to teach our children to pirate.
There should be workshops at your local library showing groups of 8 year olds how to install a VPN, safely bittorrent Goldeneye 007 and configure a Nintendo 64 emulator.
There should be public service announcements exhorting kids to download Frozen rather than paying Disney to acquire and bury even more of human culture.
@ExtentOfTheJam @mogwai_poet a main part of my interest in the abolishment of IP, is in hopes that companies start trying to make good content again instead of hiring lawyers in hopes of extorting more money from people who have already bought their shit
But everyone in my house thinks I'm crazy.
(Funnily enough one of them who's an artist, thinks a lot of artists are assholes and would ruin things with the power she sees this as granting them. Well that and marvel movies no longer being financially possible.)
@alva This particular study's parameters don't differentiate between de-listed digital only games and out of print physical games. Neither one is considered commercially available.
But yeah, even by those standards there's probably a difference -- maintaining your online store is definitely cheaper than continuing to physically stock discs of everything.
I support this, which is why I completely support places like MyAbandonware or abandonia.
@mogwai_poet At least the stuff that isn't being offered commercially at non-discriminatory rates...
If it were my decision, #DRM would be illegal and #Copyright would lapse the moment the IP holders refuse to sell the contents under FRAND terms...
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