This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own.

  • @CeeBee@lemmy.world
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    710 months ago

    The best visual example I can think of are experiments where YouTubers downloaded and reuploaded their own video 100 times

    This has nothing to do with copying a file. YouTube re-encodes videos whenever they are uploaded.

    A file DOES NOT DEGRADE when it is copied. That is something that happened to VHS and cassette tapes. It does not happen to digital files. You can even verify this by generating a hash of a file, copy it 10,000 times, and generate a new hash and they would be 100% identical.

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        9 months ago

        No I won’t be, because I’ve done this before for various reasons, but not a single but was changed.

        Let me put it this way. A computer stores programs and instructions it needs to run in files on a drive. These files contain exact and precise instructions for various components to operate. If even a SINGLE bit is off in just a couple of the OS files, your computer will start throwing constant errors if not just crashing entirely.

        And this isn’t just theory. It’s provable. Cosmic rays have been known to sometimes hit a drive and cause a bit-flip. Or another issue is a drive not being powered on for a long time causing bit-rot

        At this point I’m starting to think you’re a troll. There’s no way someone believes what you’re saying.

        Edit: autocorrect

        • @doctorcrimson@lemmy.today
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          19 months ago

          I’m going to stop responding to you few left in this thread because I don’t think you’re trolls, I know you are.