Right, but that’s not the availability problem that this survey is highlighting. They’re always going to be available illegally - no one’s debating that, even the VGHF folks have said as such.
The problem is that video games aren’t legally protected for institutional use the same way books, movies, music, etc are.
Not according to my ROM archive.
Right, but that’s not the availability problem that this survey is highlighting. They’re always going to be available illegally - no one’s debating that, even the VGHF folks have said as such.
The problem is that video games aren’t legally protected for institutional use the same way books, movies, music, etc are.
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I’m not sure if you said this tongue-in-cheek, but we know that they’ve already done this as far back as the Wii Virtual Console.
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Really? Do you have a citation for this?
Here you go.
Thanks to the Gigaleak, we know they have source code for tons of old titles
Lol and the AVGN has a whole basement full of them as well…
Agreed. At some point, it must get maddening for a person holding $50 for retro games to hear “just pirate it, bro”.
but I mean, yeah, just… pirate it, bro. Sorry. It’s how it is.