Joined: 8/30/2020
Posts: 82
Location: Sydney, Australia
Do you care about game preservation? Enough to consider doing something about it? (Don't worry, you probably won't need to get out of your chair.)
stopkillinggames.com
One irate man has taken it upon himself to arrange several avenues for holding large game studios accountable for an increasingly common practice: reaching into your hard drive and clawing back the game you bought a licence for.
If you own Ubisoft's The Crew (or rather, used to), you'll have the most impact, but for the rest of us we can maybe get a petition through to our respective governments. The Australian one just opened (closes May 20th), the EU one is still being processed so check back later, the UK one is open (closes October 16th), and the Canadian one is also still pending.
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Link to video
I contribute to BizHawk as Linux/cross-platform lead, testing and automation lead, and UI designer. This year, I'm experimenting with streaming BizHawk development on Twitch. nope
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Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems. Not problems like "What is software," because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems. For instance, how am I gonna stop some high-wattage thread-ripping monster of a CPU dead in its tracks? The answer: use code. And if that don't work? Use more code.
Joined: 8/30/2020
Posts: 82
Location: Sydney, Australia
You beat me to it! Canadians: you have until September 5th to rally signatures.
I'll add that IGN just ran a story covering the initiative. It seems Cory Doctorow was interviewed for it so maybe the EFF will get involved?
And FWIW there was apparently a podcast last month by the former The Escapist writers which featured Ross.
I contribute to BizHawk as Linux/cross-platform lead, testing and automation lead, and UI designer. This year, I'm experimenting with streaming BizHawk development on Twitch. nope
Links to find me elsewhere and to some of my side projects are on my personal site. I will respond on Discord faster than to PMs on this site.
Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems. Not problems like "What is software," because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems. For instance, how am I gonna stop some high-wattage thread-ripping monster of a CPU dead in its tracks? The answer: use code. And if that don't work? Use more code.
I'm not the type of person to own The Crew or have friends who do, but I'm watching this eagle eyed to see if it works. Good luck!
Same.
This is immediately relevant to our interests as the entire TASing scene exists as the extension of the game preservation community going through the effort of collecting and dumping thousands of games back in the 90s and early 00s. We'd not be here without that effort, and we continue going hand in hand with the game preservation community and giving back by contributing our own input to game knowledge, emulation accuracy, and awareness of forgotten games. Hence any initiative successful at improving the state of game preservation and giving consumers more rights to their games is an implicit win for TASVideos.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
