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> That ruling cites the belief of the Entertainment Software Association and other industry lobby groups that "there would be a significant risk that preserved
by markx2 2y ago
> That ruling cites the belief of the Entertainment Software Association and other industry lobby groups that "there would be a significant risk that preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes."
I have an RPi which has over 10k games from my youth. I play those games, some arcade, some from early consoles when I want to play those games. Just like sometimes you want to listen to music from when you were a teen.
I also have many consoles and games which I will hook up to my TV when I want to play those games - SSX Tricky anyone?
I have a PC and a Steamdeck with almost 9k licenses to play games.
So what do the ESA want?
Kill off music older than x years?
KIll off games older than x years? (MAME would like a word there)
The ESA argument - as quoted above - is bullshit.
- deafpolygon 2y agoDid you buy all 10k of the games from your youth?
- gopher_space 2y agoIn installments of $.25 More to the point, everyone involved with the creation of the game is retired or dead.
- doubled112 2y agoBut what about the publishing company?! Think of the publishing company! /s in case.
- deafpolygon 2y agoI’d be curious where you legally obtained each license for that price.
- gopher_space 2y agoI modify the terms of clickwrap licenses before I agree to them, then send the changes to legal@ with a cute little JavaScript animation. Never hear back from anyone about it for some reason.
- jasonjayr 2y agoProbably not, but are all 10k still available for sale? and if not, why not? And why should people be denied the ability to archive them?
- BLKNSLVR 2y agoI just recently had a mini obsession with SSX Tricky after ~20 years away. I got it running using PCX2 with a few graphical tweaks including upscaling and widescreen, running it over sunshine/moonlight so I could play it via an Android box on the TV. It looked and felt like a modern game. Great work by the community to keep it up to date like that. I'm not sure if I could have gotten it working with the actual PS2 and disc, whether those devices are still working and whether the TV could accept RCA cables as input.