Preservationists propose access limits, but industry worries about a free "online arcade."
  • FluffyPotato@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    In the US or Germany: Straight to jail

    In Japan: Your organs are now the property of Nintendo to repay this heinous crime.

    Rest of the world: it depends.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Not as long as copyright holders believe it is better to sit on a property unused than sllow it to expose future generations to the technologies that gave birth to their current way of life

  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Probably, in the same way Steamboat Mickey is.

    Just part of the whole valuing property, in this case intellectual, over actual labor and people that our species loves so fucking much.

    Imagine if IP from drugs to technology to fiction had a 5-10 year max window before other people could work with and expand on it. It would be a better world for most.

    Oh you only get to make exclusive income on that thing you came up with for SEVERAL YEARS OF YOUR LIFE before you need to contribute in other ways to keep making money, boo fucking hoo. Where’s the sympathy for people working 2 jobs, burning their life up to meet basic needs, who don’t get several years of passive income on an idea that popped into their head 4 years ago.

  • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I thought there was a site that let at most x number of people play games where x is the number of physical copies the site creator had on hand for that game. The industry doesn’t like this either, but the industry can go fuck itself. They’ve already practically taken away the public domain by making the period for copyright expiration too damn long.

  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Explicitly yes. Archiving is absolutely 100% legal and anybody who says otherwise is an idiot.

      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Title 17, section 108 of the U.S. Code, Archives and Libraries are exempt from Intellectual Property rights and do not require permission.

        To be clear, this is in addition to section 107 which outlines fair use

        • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          That’s just one country, and only covers archiving and privately storing your own media. It also doesn’t technically allow for breaking DRM IIRC, which almost all media now utilises, so what you say unfortunately isn’t true.

          • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Well yeah, it’s just one country, were you expecting an essay on the Global legality of Archives? You didn’t ask for a specific country, numbnuts.

            • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Lmao what’s up with the hostility? Can you not just talk like a normal, civilised person? If you behaved like this in real life, people would very quickly either stop talking to you, or knock you out.

              You said that it’s blanket legal, in all cases, and that anybody who says otherwise is an idiot. I said that not only is that not the case in the one country you brought up, it also isn’t in others.

              Nobody asked you to list the laws of every country, or of any specific country. You said archiving is always legal in every case, everywhere, and said anybody who says otherwise is an idiot. Unfortunately your perception and reality don’t quite line up with one another.