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Can you believe this?
10 years ago
http://m.ign.com/articles/2015/04/0.....se-its-hacking
I understand that the law quoted at the very beginning is a true law. However I personnaly think its a stupid one that doesn't protect anyone from any real harm. The fact that they specifically named "museums" and "researchers" is a little preposterous to me. Its as if they were preparing for this issue before it ever even arose. I wonder who paid who off here to get this Section 1201 to be created and put into place formally?
I'm also disgusted that these different organizations are willing to fight against the specific exemption of certain digital entertainment museums and researchers from this Section of copyright law. Its not like its to the point where everyone is rallying for the thing to be completely thrown out, even though I believe that should happen.
This just screams of sneaky, underhanded manipulation of the government and legal system by business ventures. Let's not pretend like it doesn't happen people, we all know it does, I just can't believe it would be this blatant and over such a petty thing as keeping old videogames playable.
Feel free to chime in even if you don't agree with me! If you don't agree with any of the opinions of anyone here, don't be scared to add your own thoughts and perspective, just do so in a respectful and civilised manner please. I'm hoping for a good conversation here, not some Jerry Springer BS, lol.
I understand that the law quoted at the very beginning is a true law. However I personnaly think its a stupid one that doesn't protect anyone from any real harm. The fact that they specifically named "museums" and "researchers" is a little preposterous to me. Its as if they were preparing for this issue before it ever even arose. I wonder who paid who off here to get this Section 1201 to be created and put into place formally?
I'm also disgusted that these different organizations are willing to fight against the specific exemption of certain digital entertainment museums and researchers from this Section of copyright law. Its not like its to the point where everyone is rallying for the thing to be completely thrown out, even though I believe that should happen.
This just screams of sneaky, underhanded manipulation of the government and legal system by business ventures. Let's not pretend like it doesn't happen people, we all know it does, I just can't believe it would be this blatant and over such a petty thing as keeping old videogames playable.
Feel free to chime in even if you don't agree with me! If you don't agree with any of the opinions of anyone here, don't be scared to add your own thoughts and perspective, just do so in a respectful and civilised manner please. I'm hoping for a good conversation here, not some Jerry Springer BS, lol.
I blame all these new systems allowing you to connect to the internet to download any and old games along with the little 'collection' boxes that give you all the games in a series, but going outside of that, to people modifying games to make them playable off the server... does that damage anyone or anything? D8 I'd vote for a change in the language to make it so people who are restoring games can't turn around and sell them to other people, I can see how that's cheating a company for money in a way (augh, money laws are so ridiculous), but I don't even kind of understand why restoring old games could be considered hacking.