Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games
Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games
ESA blocks attempt to improve legislation concerning video game archiving and preservation efforts:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/v ... d-archives
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/v ... d-archives
How big is the ESA organization? Sometimes I get the feeling it's like a guy's part time job, and he just barks out "users are the number one enemy of software" anytime something hits the news. If he wasn't on the media call-for-opinion list, there'd be nothing to him at all but a crank website. And the lawyers, of course. <sigh>
Yes, I know the lawyers and takedown requests, and pursue their client's viewpoint in "see what we can get away with" laywerly fashion. I just wasn't sure if they were anything more than that, or are just an umbrella for lawyer fees, or what exactly. Anyway, I'm sure I could research it if I cared, just the sleazy way they go about it is like Disney lawyers - gives a bad name via bad behavior to something I generally like, property rights for software producers.
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That's the 1st time I'd want to strangle 'em at throut, shake and yell "&(/&%n' idiots!!!" (even though I don't play such games). I'm askin' again: Why doesn't game companies release theirold ones to free distribution or take back on sale. That's why abandonware and museums exists. If they'd do, they ma get more customers.[/img]
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I can't tell if you are truly trying to be a dick or not, so I'll let it pass. But now we are talking more on this than the actual subject matter so I guess I will leave it to you guys.Wally wrote:Not our problem so you miss outDOS Wolf wrote:I don't click links.Wally wrote: That's our problem because?