ESA Nonsense: Preserving Digital Games is Hacking/Piracy

[dsheinem]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/v ... d-archives

Because hacking=piracy and because both are illegal.

I don't even know what to say. So, so stupid.

[J T]

Rather than pushing money into the ESA to ban abandonware, they should push money into their old IPs to re-release them so fans could actually buy the games again and play them on new hardware. I don't know what the sales figures look like, but I've certainly seen things migrate from abandonia to gog.com before.

[irixith]

FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD

...what? They want to keep playing their OLD games? That they ALREADY paid for? PREPOSTEROUS! Quick, spread the FUD!!!!

[MrPopo]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/videogame-publishers-no-preserving-abandoned-games-even-museums-and-archives

Because hacking=piracy and because both are illegal.

I don't even know what to say. So, so stupid.

We need to show them by increasing the 3D printing technology so we can download a car.

[Gunstar Green]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU

I would totally download a car.

[marurun]

Maybe we could download a floppy disk. Aren't those what the cool kids are using these days?

[irixith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU

I would totally download a car.

I would also download a car.

In fact, I'd download cars like I download TV shows...only the same problem would exist. Running out of storage space.

[J T]

Maybe we could download a floppy disk. Aren't those what the cool kids are using these days?

Is that kid playing a shmup with Track & Field controls?

[SonicGamer74]

This article made me laugh. Like, seriously? Did they just say that, by us playing games we legally purchased (assuming I read that correctly), it's our fault if the gaming industry crashes?

I swear to god....

[Exhuminator]

A publisher's blind greed knows no bounds nor common sense.