Why Piracy Fears are Keeping Some Researchers from Accessing the Games They Need - IGN
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Last month, the Software Preservation Network (SPN) made arguments in support of a Digital Millennium Copyright Act amendment that would allow libraries to bypass digital locks on video games so that academics and credentialed researchers could study them. But the games industry is fighting back.
  • DebatableRaccoonEnglish
    47·
    7 months ago

    If this doesn’t scream anti-preservation, I don’t know what does.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      37·
      7 months ago

      They don’t want anything preserved, because if it disappears, it can be “remastered” and resold like a brand new game with zero actual input capital.

      • Ahri Boy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        20·
        7 months ago

        And the remastered was a total disaster, Rockstar Games’ worst title was the “The Defective Edition” of GTA: The Trilogy.

  • Ahri Boy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    12·
    7 months ago

    DMCA is very complicated. Even non-US based institutions had to comply with the law if they want to serve US customers.