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Yea, but there are bigger problems coming, this outage is just a temporary preview of the future. What happens to game preservation in 20 or 10 years when the
by ls1911 2mo ago
Yea, but there are bigger problems coming, this outage is just a temporary preview of the future.
What happens to game preservation in 20 or 10 years when the authentication servers for this generation are permanently shut down?
Millions of physical discs will instantly turn into e-waste.
- psp99 2mo agoe-waste is the last of the problems.
- wett 2mo agoFiguratively and literally!
- inigyou 2mo agoThe same thing that happened with all the Denuvo games so far: some hackers remove the DRM.
- drdexebtjl 2mo agoThat would be possibly illegal, requires someone highly specialized to care about each and every one of your games, and assumes there won’t be a crackdown on the openness and anonymity of the Internet that currently allows the distribution of pirate software. We need to have this right codified into law before we lose it.
- inigyou 2mo agoNot just possibly, the DMCA makes it a felony to remove or bypass any copy protection measure, even if it doesn't work very well.
- drdexebtjl 2mo agoNot every jurisdiction has the DMCA, so that’s why I said possibly. It’s definitely illegal in the US.
- inigyou 2mo agoEvery jurisdiction was bullied into adopting this provision as part of every trade deal the US ever makes. Cory Doctorow wrote about it. Look for the keyword "anticircumvention".
- drdexebtjl 2mo agoCouldn’t find it. I know for a fact it isn’t illegal in my country.
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- inigyou 2mo agoIt's coming. https://www.iipa.org/files/uploads/2026/01/BRAZIL-2026-COPYEDITED-12.23.25-2.pdf https://www.iipa.org/files/uploads/2026/01/BRAZIL-2026-COPYE... (Search "circumvention")
- drdexebtjl 2mo agoThere’s a huge difference between the US bullying us into making this illegal, and the US throwing a fit in a report suggesting we should do it. We’ve been on this watchlist before. There’s no such law being proposed right now.
- mindlessg 2mo agoRemoving DRM is all fun and games until single player titles start requiring constant internet access in the future.
- inigyou 2mo agoDenuvo requires internet access. It's been cracked anyway. Do you know about this tool called Ghidra? It makes most programs open source. Not the ones with DRM, though.
- throwawayffffas 2mo agoThe next step they want to take is not have you use your own hardware at all and just stream it to you, so you don't even have a copy.
- Schiendelman 2mo agoHasn't Microsoft had a good track record of enabling playing old generation games on new hardware?
- Gigachad 2mo agoNot really. They left games broken when they shut down Games for Windows Live.
- queenkjuul 2mo agoXbox kinda, windows no
- Schiendelman 2mo agoKinda?
- queenkjuul 2mo agoYou can play a selection of OG Xbox games on the latest console and most, but not all, 360 games work too. So, kinda