But, the ESA is looking out for their clients, the companies who pay them to represent the best interests of the game industry.

It’s a good thing we know preservation IS in the best interest of the game industry. They can’t do it all alone — so let libraries and archives help!🎤

The game reissue study is still ongoing and hasn’t been through all of its double and triple checking yet— but we are VERY eager to share the abysmal results with all of you, and with the US copyright office!

Argument B I address in the article, and is quite frankly ridiculous. Libraries are for education AND entertainment. (In fact, sometimes people rent eBooks from libraries for FUN!!)

Luckily, we’re set on changing this. The ESA’s main arguments are that a. rights holders can and will capitalize on their old games and b. that if we let libraries provide remote access to video games, people might have fun instead of doing research.

Argument A is easily dismantled by the sheer fact that *no one is doing even a passable job at that*, and we’ll be armed with the data to prove it at the next DMCA hearing. Results pending, but the numbers so far are BAD, like, silent film bad.