Why Piracy Fears are Keeping Some Researchers from Accessing the Games They Need - IGN
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Last month, the Software Preservation Network (SPN) made arguments in support of a Digital Millennium Copyright Act amendment that would allow libraries to bypass digital locks on video games so that academics and credentialed researchers could study them. But the games industry is fighting back.
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If this doesn’t scream anti-preservation, I don’t know what does.

They don’t want anything preserved, because if it disappears, it can be “remastered” and resold like a brand new game with zero actual input capital.

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And the remastered was a total disaster, Rockstar Games’ worst title was the “The Defective Edition” of GTA: The Trilogy.

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