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Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:39 pm
by MrFlibble
ESA blocks attempt to improve legislation concerning video game archiving and preservation efforts:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/v ... d-archives
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:31 pm
by Quadko
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>
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:48 pm
by MrFlibble
Well, I've heard they are known to take down stuff for real, and apparently they actually monitor users' activities and track down potential infringements.
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 5:25 pm
by Quadko
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.
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 9:09 pm
by DOS Wolf
I do not click on links. Would it be too much to ask for copy and paste of the article?
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 2:02 am
by Wally
DOS Wolf wrote:I do not click on links. Would it be too much to ask for copy and paste of the article?
That's our problem because?
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 12:03 pm
by wardrich
DOS Wolf wrote:I do not click on links. Would it be too much to ask for copy and paste of the article?
But then you miss out on the information that they cite in it. It's a link straight from the EFF... what's wrong in clicking it?
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 11:28 pm
by 486 player
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]
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 12:51 am
by DOS Wolf
Wally wrote:DOS Wolf wrote:I do not click on links. Would it be too much to ask for copy and paste of the article?
That's our problem because?
I don't click links.
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 2:02 am
by Wally
DOS Wolf wrote:Wally wrote:DOS Wolf wrote:I do not click on links. Would it be too much to ask for copy and paste of the article?
That's our problem because?
I don't click links.
Not our problem so you miss out
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 12:21 pm
by DOS Wolf
Wally wrote:DOS Wolf wrote:Wally wrote:
That's our problem because?
I don't click links.
Not our problem so you miss out
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.
