Iβve long maintained the US needs to start a National Video Games Archive akin to the film and sound archives. Committee selection and all.
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2024
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Better just leave it up to individuals. No need for the government to get involved.
Getting the government involved does not in any way impact the ability of individuals to do it. The national Film and Sound archives are national treasures that provide a critical function when it comes to preserving media that hobbyists canβt duplicate. Their value for the arts/humanities and the preservation of culture simply canβt be overstated. For starters, a national video game archive would presumably store source code/as many generations of builds as possible, a lot of which do not exist on the world. Theyβd also follow proper backup protocols for these assets.
There is no downside.
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Thank you! :)
Urgh. Can't even sign it. Fuck Brexit.
They blow their load with the UK government as well by asking the conservatives rather than waiting for some reasonable people with functional brains to come in
Done
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How do you leave it in a "functionable state"? Drivers disappear, hardware changes, libraries get updated, os' update or die off, etc. You'd have to expose the source code to the public at that point and if I was a developer I'd want nothing to do with that market then.
It's just about not intentionally breaking stuff.
I can still run Blade Runner which came out in 1997 using Wine, things don't die off that easily when they are not broken on purpose.
You'd have to expose the source code to the public
Good.
I'd want nothing to do with that market then
With that attitude, also good.
At some point I'm just going to start donating to the EU
It's called taxes.
How to pay taxes to a country you don't live in
You can send me money, I'll have to pay taxes on that
EU isn't a country
There's no countries in the EU? π’