Lol call me the British museum
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It's conservation. Archeology is digging up what was once lost.
So finding a lost video game is archeology. Keeping it safe is conservation.
Ensuring games can't be lost in the first place and that they continue to work in the future is preservation.
All needed, but different things.
My hot take is all abandonware media should legally become file-share friendly after a certain amount of time being out of print, say 15 or 20 years. The original rights holder still maintains copyright, but if they are no longer publishing that work, and therefore no longer making sales, anyone can fileshare it for free in its original form. If the owner then republishes it, it stops being file share friendly. But there have to be caveats, like Nintendo can't publish 2 copies of an old game every 15 years for like $500 a copy and say it's still published. It has to be sold at a reasonable price.
I mean, copyright was supposed to be limited to 20 years, same as patents. I don't think we would need anything else if we went back to that. There is no reason for copyright to last about a century like it does now.
I think lifetime of original creator is fine. I wrote my first manga in 2010 (it's crap but still), I don't think that it should stop being mine in 4 years.
I heard that lifetime + 80 was to stop someone murdering a popular author and, assuming they got away with it, then publishing that work for their own profit. But I don't know if that's true.
Then how would Disney make money if they didnt continue being able to sell 70 year old movies at full price???? Stop being such a greedy asshole Dreamlsnd!!!! Disney needs to make a reasonable income, and public domain was always a silly idea.
This reminds me of when a couple of lost Doctor Who episodes were found but the owner was nervous to share them with the BBC because he feared confiscation and/or prosecution. I don't know what happened with that story.
Ok, truth, but I will still call it preventive archeology...
IT BELONGS ~~IN A MUSEUM~~ ON MY HARDRIVE
I was thinking Internet Archive, but either works.
Came here to say this. Me and my wife were playing games from DOS and win95/98 days thanks to the internet archive recently. It really felt like digging up memories.
Sorry Dr NAS, no time for love
SO DO YOU!
Throw him over the side.
".…..no ticket!"
"(smirk) Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory."
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All media will eventually not be sold any more...
Arr ... chivin'.
I'm going to steal this.
Typical.
Maybe even go as far as to distribute it further to the masses for free??
Unbelievable!!!
And to what end, at what cost? A slightly better (or at least not actively worse) society? Why won't anyone prioritise the illogically excessive needs of the few over those of many??
Because the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one or something like that...
Hey, I like the sound of that.
I'm going to arr...chive that
Also, ripping your local libraries dvd collection for personal use is called archiving and depending where you live completely legal.
Yeah I "archived" all my "dvds"
"my"
I mean, I paid to access them through Netflix, back when Netflix still sent DVDs through the mail. They were "mine" for the moment.
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Where I live the library card costs 5-10 € per year and they carry blu rays, video games and e books. Needless to say I've now renewed this card for the 15th year in a row
Oh shit forgot about the library. Definitely going check out some movies.
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Most here are just talking about one form of media, why not include video games like "Black and White" made by Lion Head Studios and not sold anywhere, but can only be found on archive sites for dead games. Edit: if you want to find these abandon games the site that I use is My Abandonware
Weird, was JUST thinking about that . . .
Or the absolutely legendary "No one lives Forever" that is stuck in a Limbo of Legality - iirc it's not clear who has the rights to distribute the game, so it isn't.
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Realistically, I don't think anyone would come after you anyway. It is de facto legal. I'd say in the name of pragmatism, we don't really need a legal framework around it.
In most cases, probably. And then there's Nintendo.
I was just coming here to say Nintendo. They did eventually pull some titles back into rotation with vintage gaming devices and versions for modern equipment, but plenty of games have never been touched again, and they still insist it's illegal to ROM them. Fuck that I am doing my usual Crystalis playthrough every couple years like always...
Piracy? I prefer the term preservation.
I prefer the term "Harming corporations by any means available to me is a moral imperative ".
I finally got around to hosting a JellyFinn server and there’s a number of useful programs you can use to get your movies off DVD and Blu ray. MakeMKV and HandBrake my beloved programs
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An archaeologist is just a thief with patience
-River Song
Ah! So I'm a pirate and an archeologist. Nice!
I love being the only seeder for something only for the fact I can share it. The problem is, more people should be seeding it as well to preserve history.
Indy was a grave robber.
Nah, he wasn't a grave robber, he was an actor.
Harrison Ford is a actor. Indy the character goes around pell mell destroying sites for the biggest trinket.
Once it’s a ruin I can legally loot it…
Abandonware collector since 2000 here...
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