https://www.gamesradar.com/games/publishers-are-absolutely-terrified-preserved-video-games-would-be-used-for-recreational-purposes-so-the-us-copyright-office-has-struck-down-a-major-effort-for-game-preservation/
Blatantly stolen from Hexbear
This is it, this is what's making me join the black block. ABANDONWARE IS A HUMAN RIGHT!
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Their idea of preservation is distributing intellectual property over the Internet for FREE
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Yeah why not? Most of this shit isn't generating any revenue and the japs who made it probably threw away the source code 20 years ago
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Yeah I don't care about that. It's just disingenuous to call it a preservation movement like you're a museum or something. Just share your games and play them. Didn't be a queer about it.
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I think the neurodivergents who soy over lost media are genuinely more interested in copying and repackaging files forever than actually playing them tbh
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/r/datahoarder is really bad about this
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Yeah maybe
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Zoomers are too afraid to commit actual piracy so they cope and justify it with
how they technically aren't breaking the law or whatever and the company is actually the bad guy and it's insuffrable
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Like let's take Monster Rancher Advanced 2 for example. It would take more money to reformat/native emulate it and wouldn't be worth the revenue of like 5 neurodivergent still buying it.
So why is preserving the original game considered stealing potential profit from corporations if they wouldn't make any profit in the first place reselling it.
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Because you won't be buying their new slop if you can still play their old slop
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Dude I wish, I'm still waiting for Monster Rancher 5
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Because it's not your ip
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Yes, I'm making an statement about how the "lost of potential profit" isn't valid, like these corporations are trying to claim.
They still have the legal right to take down these roms and go after the people who dumped them online, but their agruement is weak at best and they have no legal footing to go after the users who don't dump rom but play them instead
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