Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation
Ashtear@lemm.ee 4 weeks agoA lot of those games are still around, just not in legal distribution channels.
The more at-risk stuff is newer games going forward, such as live-service games or games locked down with DRM that requires authentication to play.
_bcron_@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There’s a lot that just vanish into the ether when someone doesn’t renew their little abandonware site they built and forgot about a decade ago. Maybe not the big names like Might & Magic, but the smaller titles most people have never heard of. Shit’s a bummer if the Internet Archive doesn’t get to it because then it’s probably on a dozen 3.5" floppys in desks that haven’t been cleaned out