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Wtf??? Then they have nothing to fucking say about the copyright of games, if they don't have them preserved at the copyright office
Do we know if they send copies over there, or otherwise archive them there? If not, then fucking hell
That interview was in 2012, in case you're curious.
The issue here isn't the absence of archived video games. Copies of those games exist at the Library of Congress. And just like a physical book at your local library, you have to go to the library if you want to borrow them.
The Video Game History Foundation wants to download those games, kind of like the e-books available at many libraries. By law, this requires a licensing agreement between the library and the copyright holder. That's why for many books, libraries only have physical copies. So the VGHF wants to change that.
🫢stealing this library and creating a torrent would be such a pirate move, like, I don’t know what could top that, global hero
They are in physical form, so they all still have the original DRM. And if the DRM has been cracked, then a torrent probably already exists.
If the game is popular enough, I guess