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.
  • Pheta@fedia.io
    161·
    7 months ago

    man, some of those comments really got under my skin.

    Like, they were so insensitive to the issue and dismissive it was honestly pretty alarming. Like they couldn’t understand why you can’t just go and buy a copy of an unpopular NES game, or why academic study is even a good thing. Like, these are the illiterate, inbred stereotypes that resent having to do book reports because ‘they don’t read good’. It’d be comical if it wasn’t alarming.

  • Thann
    103·
    7 months ago

    I’m trying to research how fun this game is, plz halp!

  • taanegl@beehaw.org
    1·
    7 months ago

    There’s an easy solution… make everything before the 2000s public domain.

    Suck it, Nintendo.