"This fails the needs of citizens in favor of a weak sauce argument from the industry, and it's really disappointing"
  • peppersky [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    66·
    28 days ago

    Just pirate everything you can and call for a complete reform of copyright (or abolishment of copyright if you want to be actually cool). You’ll never get anywhere with arguments about preservation and shit, why would a government that doesn’t care about preserving the planet care about preserving some shitty videogames

      • MaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        10·
        27 days ago

        Most of Monty Python’s original work at the BBC was simply taped over to cut costs. The only reason any of it survived is because one of them hoarded a bunch of it in their attic.

  • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    57·
    28 days ago

    The US copyright office has denied a request for a DMCA exemption that would allow libraries to remotely share digital access to preserved video games.

    Damn, can’t check out Leisure Suit Larry or Beat-em and Eat-em from my local library anymore because of “woke.”

    “She also notes the greater risk of market harm with removing the video game exemption’s premises limitation, given the market for legacy video games.”

    Fucker…

    The ortega-clap

    Games ortega-clap

    Are ortega-clap

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    There is zero market harm for a library to loan out a ROM of that old Atari 2600 game where you play as a Kangaroo with boxing gloves punching the shit out of everything.

    • Moonworm [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      38·
      28 days ago

      But they could make them again, perhaps as a collection of games on a bespoke console. It’s like unexploited land that they’re enforcing their borders around. It’s just one more facet of digital enclosure.

        • Moonworm [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          25·
          28 days ago

          I don’t agree. Also they don’t ever have to do it, the potential is enough to be valued; but furthermore the rights themselves can be bought and sold, speculated on, and generally financialized.

    • lil_tank [any, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      33·
      28 days ago

      It’s not even that they want to make a profit off of old games. What they want is players to spend all their time in the new slop and if they can spend time playing retro games instead that would be a loss. Of course that’s not realistic because treat addict g@mers and retro passionates aren’t really overlapping but the suits don’t know that they think there is one unique video games market

  • FunkYankkkees [they/them, pup/pup's]@hexbear.netEnglish
    39·
    28 days ago

    “This fails the needs of citizens in favor of a weak sauce argument from the industry, and it’s really disappointing”

    I wonder why the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie would side with capital over the proletariat? thinkin-lenin

  • Philosophosphorous [comrade/them, null/void]@hexbear.netEnglish
    33·
    28 days ago

    death to all IP lawyers. modern games are all fortnite clone over-the-shoulder battle royale microtransaction games, even single player games have microtransactions and locked over-the-right-shoulder cameras. every time i see a new game i have to temper my excitement until i see gameplay footage to check if it has that godawful fortnite locked-to-the-right-shoulder camera perspective, which they almost always do. all 3rd person games should either have centered cameras or the ability to switch which side the camera is on so i can aim around cover to the left sometimes instead of always moving right or having the disadvantage against those who can.

    i hate modern gaming, i’m going to go play Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri (the Terran Hegemony did nothing wrong)

    • Esoteir [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      27 days ago

      Over two hundred years before the beginning of the game, Earth is subsumed by a world government called the Hegemony, whose “Publicanism” philosophy PC Zone summarized as “communism without the economic restrictions”. The Hegemony annexes colonies throughout the Solar System, but the inhabitants of Jupiter’s moons reach an agreement that allows them to relocate to Alpha Centauri, where they settle on the Earth-like NewHope and the frozen Thatcher planets.

      so the villain is super communism and the protagonists are a bunch of space neoliberals that named their planets after fucking Margaret Thatcher?

      holy shit the brainworms in US sci-fi lmaooo

      • Philosophosphorous [comrade/them, null/void]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        27 days ago

        SERIOUSLY! i read the lore entries in-game and almost every single thing they mentioned about the Hegemony was incredibly based despite being presented as some unspeakable orwellian evil lmao. like way more lines saying stuff like ‘hegemony citizens all get healthcare and food and housing’ than the bad stuff like ‘they are ruled by a class of orphan oligarchs’.

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    32·
    27 days ago

    I’m actually stunned. “Market harm” is a stupid term and it’s being used for games that aren’t even being sold anymore. Games that most kids or adults aren’t going out of their way to find. Anyone else want to play 8-bit Bug’s Life?

  • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    26·
    27 days ago

    Very similar to last year’s ruling against the Internet Archive’s Open Library:

    But Koetl wrote that any “alleged benefits” from the Internet Archive’s library “cannot outweigh the market harm to the publishers,” declares that “there is nothing transformative about [Internet Archive’s] copying and unauthorized lending,” and that copying these books doesn’t provide “criticism, commentary, or information about them.” He notes that the Google Books use was found “transformative” because it created a searchable database instead of simply publishing copies of books on the internet.

    Also for out-of-print media.