Jim StormdancerJul 11, 2023

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.

Show threadJim StormdancerJul 11, 2023

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.

Show threadLouis
@mogwai_poet Pirates are doing pretty well holding down the fort. When I was in the hospital my nurse had complete rom sets on his phone (and I ended up getting him into Dodonpachi). It’d be exciting though to see old games offered legally. There should be a “shit or get off the pot” law.
Jul 11, 2023 at 3:23pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadJim StormdancerJul 11, 2023
@ExtentOfTheJam Pirates are doing great for *us*, but if the next generation doesn't learn how to pirate then we'll have another "75% of silent films are lost forever" situation
Show threadLouisJul 11, 2023
@mogwai_poet I agree. I would expect a decent chunk knows how to pirate..? But now I dunno!
Show threadunmellowJul 12, 2023

@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.)