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 Post subject: No Preserving Abandoned Games Because All Hacking is Illegal
PostPosted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 6:37 pm 
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No Preserving Abandoned Games, Even for Museums and Archives

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The Entertainment Software Association doesn’t want anyone to restore the functionality of older videogames that are no longer supported by their publisher, because, says ESA, this is “hacking,” and all hacking is “associated with piracy.”

Section 1201 is often used by the entertainment industries not to prevent copyright infringement but to control markets and lock out competition. So it’s not surprising that ESA (the trade association for the largest game producers), along with MPAA and RIAA, have written to the Copyright Office to oppose this exemption. They say that modifying games to connect to a new server (or to avoid contacting a server at all) after publisher support ends—letting people continue to play the games they paid for—will destroy the video game industry. They say it would “undermine the fundamental copyright principles on which our copyright laws are based.”

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 Post subject: Re: No Preserving Abandoned Games Because All Hacking is Illegal
PostPosted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 11:23 pm 
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Sounds like a waste of time....

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 Post subject: Re: No Preserving Abandoned Games Because All Hacking is Illegal
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Sounds like a waste of time....

What does? Preserving old games?

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 Post subject: Re: No Preserving Abandoned Games Because All Hacking is Illegal
PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 1:00 pm 
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Sounds like a stupid statement to me. All hacking is apparently piracy? :palm:

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 Post subject: Re: No Preserving Abandoned Games Because All Hacking is Illegal
PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 2:38 pm 
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That's just plain stupid. Games are big now. It has become part of history. Of course there are museums and archives who would like to preserve that.

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 Post subject: Re: No Preserving Abandoned Games Because All Hacking is Illegal
PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 6:13 am 
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poehalcho wrote:
BuDo wrote:
Sounds like a waste of time....

What does? Preserving old games?


Trying to prevent enthusiasts from doing whatever they want with these old titles...It's like trying to stop the sharing of copyright content...It's a joke...

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