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390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's some real looney tunes shit, and is banking (seemingly correctly, because this has been ongoing for a few years now) on these copyright holders not understanding how the internet works

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

Emuparadise has been doing this for around 7 years now.