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87% of classic games are endangered
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this is referring to them being officially available for purchase
Yeah but what can you do if a lot of the companies who made the original games aren’t around anymore and didn’t sell the rights to anyone else? Even some of the people who claim piracy is immoral understand that “pirating” abandonware is perfectly fine.
I would rather not call that piracy but latent preservation.
I do love latent preservating games I never owned
I am cool with that. Just pass the file forward once it is searched for as lost media.
I like to think of it as fishing old games out of a dumpster. They were carelessly thrown away, no attempt is made to preserve them or make profit from them.
They are fair game.
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I mean -- the companies could have made an effort to make that money. If they don't, profits aren't automatic. I think this is clearly a grey area.
For me it's pretty black and white here. If you don't sell me something, there is no guilt anymore and I can download it for free. Same issue with TV shows in foreign languages where you can't subscribe or buy anything (I'm looking at you Poland, Japan, and any other weird country that seems to ignore the rest of the world).