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1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 08:18:50 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

   • Cory Doctorow
   • IGN :press:

   "If you bought a game, if you made a game, if you love a game, technology shouldn't get in the way of that game's ongoing existence,” EFF’s @pluralistic told @IGN — tech should preserve games for those who love them and for posterity.
   https://www.ign.com/articles/how-stop-killing-games-ups-the-ante-in-the-fight-for-video-game-preservation

   • VulcanTourist (vulcantourist@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 00:19:33 JST VulcanTourist

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • IGN :press:

     @eff @pluralistic @IGN

     This is not easy to do when the owner of a game's "intellectual property" is willing to defiantly sit on it as a game slips into obscurity and then abandonware. It's the intangible version of the real estate phenomenon of huge parcels of land that sit barren in (sub)urban areas, sometimes for decades, while its speculative owner waits for that Deal of Lifetime.

     Copyright straddles and strangles that preservation goal like a Berlin Wall.