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A good solution would be to legislate. Mandate by law that after a certain period of time (starting from the point on which the servers get shut down) the devel

• LocalH 4y ago
  Why would that even make it anywhere, to be honest? The relevant lobbyists have a vested interest in having those games go away - they only like retrogaming insofar as they can make money from it. They'd much rather people be playing versions of games that they have remastered or rereleased, than the original copies that exist (and that they make no money from if one acquires them secondhand). Many major studio heads have spoken, openly, about their disdain for the secondhand market's mere existence. No, the actual way forward for large scale preservation requires donning a pirate's hat. The people really doing legitimate preservation work are largely doing it outside of the purview of the copyright holders (and often in direct opposition to the rightsholders' desires). This has always been the case and will continue to be the case as long as copyright remains in force in the current form.