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ESA Nonsense: Preserving Digital Games is Hacking/Piracy
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:06 pm
by dsheinem
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/v ... d-archivesBecause hacking=piracy and because both are illegal.
I don't even know what to say. So, so stupid.
Re: ESA Nonsense: Preserving Digital Games is Hacking/Piracy
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:20 pm
by 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.
Re: ESA Nonsense: Preserving Digital Games is Hacking/Piracy
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:32 pm
by 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!!!!
Re: ESA Nonsense: Preserving Digital Games is Hacking/Piracy
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:48 pm
by MrPopo
dsheinem wrote: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.
Re: ESA Nonsense: Preserving Digital Games is Hacking/Piracy
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:56 pm
by Gunstar Green
Re: ESA Nonsense: Preserving Digital Games is Hacking/Piracy
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:37 pm
by marurun
Maybe we could download a
floppy disk. Aren't those what the cool kids are using these days?
Re: ESA Nonsense: Preserving Digital Games is Hacking/Piracy
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 9:14 pm
by irixith
Gunstar Green wrote: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.
Re: ESA Nonsense: Preserving Digital Games is Hacking/Piracy
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 9:36 pm
by J T
marurun wrote: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?
Re: ESA Nonsense: Preserving Digital Games is Hacking/Piracy
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 9:37 pm
by 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....
Re: ESA Nonsense: Preserving Digital Games is Hacking/Piracy
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:53 am
by Exhuminator
A publisher's blind greed knows no bounds nor common sense.