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Piracy is justified. Steal, steal, steal some more; then copy it and give it to all your friends.
Just pirate everything you can and call for a complete reform of copyright (or abolishment of copyright if you want to be actually cool). You’ll never get anywhere with arguments about preservation and shit, why would a government that doesn’t care about preserving the planet care about preserving some shitty videogames
Always pirate if you can. Fuck them.
Is medicinal use still accepted?
Chrono Trigger Chronic
“This fails the needs of citizens in favor of a weak sauce argument from the industry, and it’s really disappointing”
I wonder why the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie would side with capital over the proletariat?
In the early 1900s, movie companies would regularly destroy all film reels they could reach after a feature had run its course in theaters.
That’s why the early age of motion pictures has so many gaps of completely lost movies. And that’s intentional because
at the time didn’t want anything old to exist if new things could get churned out instead.That, and they were incredibly careless with the new technology. Fires burned quite a few of them because they weren’t properly or carefully stored.
Most of Monty Python’s original work at the BBC was simply taped over to cut costs. The only reason any of it survived is because one of them hoarded a bunch of it in their attic.
Mask off
The US copyright office has denied a request for a DMCA exemption that would allow libraries to remotely share digital access to preserved video games.
Damn, can’t check out Leisure Suit Larry or Beat-em and Eat-em from my local library anymore because of “woke.”
“She also notes the greater risk of market harm with removing the video game exemption’s premises limitation, given the market for legacy video games.”
Fucker…
The
Games
Are
Out
Of
Print
There is zero market harm for a library to loan out a ROM of that old Atari 2600 game where you play as a Kangaroo with boxing gloves punching the shit out of everything.
But they could make them again, perhaps as a collection of games on a bespoke console. It’s like unexploited land that they’re enforcing their borders around. It’s just one more facet of digital enclosure.
But they could make them again, perhaps as a collection of games on a bespoke console.
Sure. It could be like Nintendo’s usual overpriced mini consoles that are sold to scalpers first on purpose and have laughably small libraries with Ice Climbers as a mandatory inclusion.
Counterpoint, if they haven’t done it by now, they aren’t going to.
Yeah, but they could. We all know they won’t, but they could and that’s enough to make them mad enough to fight it.
I don’t agree. Also they don’t ever have to do it, the potential is enough to be valued; but furthermore the rights themselves can be bought and sold, speculated on, and generally financialized.
It’s not even that they want to make a profit off of old games. What they want is players to spend all their time in the new slop and if they can spend time playing retro games instead that would be a loss. Of course that’s not realistic because treat addict g@mers and retro passionates aren’t really overlapping but the suits don’t know that they think there is one unique video games market
Not to mention all the remakes game companies are churning out. I don’t think people would be as eager to buy them if the originals are accessible.
They can pry my Peggle from my cold, dead, hands!
Piracy is a practical and moral imperative.
Publishers are terrified, just TERRIFIED, someone might enjoy some media without them receiving THEIR FAIR CUT!
Yeah man but tell me more about how women are ruining video games.
That’s the point?
Art under capitalism is so fucking sad.
What if someone enjoys reading something preserved in the Library of Congress? Better shut it down just to be safe
I’ve seen bazingas insist that libraries are obsolete because le epic Amazon is there.
We have had local politicians clamoring to cut funding to our city’s public library because Google exists.
That’s a big bazinga proposal in the techbro sectors of CA too.
But if the customers can–what did you call it? “share?”–these games then how will we sell this 40 year old ROM for $70???
