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87% of classic games are endangered (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

this is referring to them being officially available for purchase

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

Yeah but what can you do if a lot of the companies who made the original games aren’t around anymore and didn’t sell the rights to anyone else? Even some of the people who claim piracy is immoral understand that “pirating” abandonware is perfectly fine.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

I would rather not call that piracy but latent preservation.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

I do love latent preservating games I never owned

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I am cool with that. Just pass the file forward once it is searched for as lost media.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I like to think of it as fishing old games out of a dumpster. They were carelessly thrown away, no attempt is made to preserve them or make profit from them.

They are fair game.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I mean -- the companies could have made an effort to make that money. If they don't, profits aren't automatic. I think this is clearly a grey area.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

For me it's pretty black and white here. If you don't sell me something, there is no guilt anymore and I can download it for free. Same issue with TV shows in foreign languages where you can't subscribe or buy anything (I'm looking at you Poland, Japan, and any other weird country that seems to ignore the rest of the world).

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