History Needs Software Piracy

[gezegond]

Thank you emuparadise, for preserving history.

Why History Needs Software Piracy - PCWorld

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[Grouch]

that was a really good read. I think those in support of anti piracy should read this article, maybe then they'd have a better understanding of what they're doing.

[gezegond]

I always believed the copyright term for software is too long. Why would Microsoft need copyright to "Microsoft Write" 70+ years later when no one bothers to use it even now?

It is a redundant law, it's just always been there. No one objects to it, because it doesn't concern them directly.

[LeftyGuitar]

I read this article eariler in the day. It has many good points. I think all this SOPA/PIPA and anti-piracy war has made people more aware of how the U.S. copyright laws needs to be changed. This old out-dated software still has copyright on it, making it illegal to share it, even though its no longer being sold or used for the most part.

[Jazzmarazz]

I wanted to add this, but it was already in the midlde of the article: Magnetic strips and even rom chips' data deteriorate over time. Meaning that all you your cartidges and floppies (for you older lot) will be blank after a number of years. All of the games that you paid for will have been erased, leaving you will some pretty plastics.

[Rok124]

I wanted to add this, but it was already in the midlde of the article: Magnetic strips and even rom chips' data deteriorate over time. Meaning that all you your cartidges and floppies (for you older lot) will be blank after a number of years. All of the games that you paid for will have been erased, leaving you will some pretty plastics.

which basically makes this entire argument of the internet needing piracy valid. If people couldn't pirate, then the files would never be transported to a different medium to be distributed in a different way but still preserved. Imagine that someday many of the great things these people are trying to sell will dissapear when they force people to not steal their work. Either these people need to constantly transport their files into newer technology, or we need the internet pirates to do it for them.


That problaby sounded extremely confusing

[gezegond]

which basically makes this entire argument of the internet needing piracy valid. If people couldn't pirate, then the files would never be transported to a different medium to be distributed in a different way but still preserved. Imagine that someday many of the great things these people are trying to sell will dissapear when they force people to not steal their work. Either these people need to constantly transport their files into newer technology, or we need the internet pirates to do it for them.


That problaby sounded extremely confusing

What pirates do is not "wrong". It's "illegal". The reason is the laws are incomplete. If you dig into it, you'll see copyright has always changed to create further profit for large companies while the rights of the people who are using the copyrighted work is completely ignored.

[Grouch]

I wanted to add this, but it was already in the midlde of the article: Magnetic strips and even rom chips' data deteriorate over time. Meaning that all you your cartidges and floppies (for you older lot) will be blank after a number of years. All of the games that you paid for will have been erased, leaving you will some pretty plastics.

that got me wondering how long is the life span of a rom chip? and for that matter whats the life span of a cd rom?

[gezegond]

that got me wondering how long is the life span of a rom chip? and for that matter whats the life span of a cd rom?

About 10 years for both of them.

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[Grouch]

About 10 years for both of them.

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all the more reason why this should be legal.

[MasJ]

Very nice article - thanks for posting it here. Tweeted it out too!

Obviously I agree with most of it

[SpuzzHardwick]

Coolest thing I learned about from the article: that Mario sweater maker game. What the fuck?

[Majinkura]

whats the life span of a cd rom?

About 10 years for both of them.

wait are you serious?? even if a cdrom game hasn't been used the data will deteriorate anyway??
man what's the point in collecting games then

[Kuro Kagami]

Thank you emuparadise, for preserving history.

Why History Needs Software Piracy - PCWorld

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Great article.

Someone should definitively take it and slap it in the face of all those SOPA/PIPA/ACTA supporting politicians to show them who actually causes the harm here...

Copyright laws are anyway outdated by centuries for the current digital medias and should be adapted (sadly the big companies will fight to the last lawyer to keep them like this to preserve their massive and still frowing profits... greedy bastards)

[Rok124]

I think people should start worrying about the decreasing jobs in many places in the world and not about their own wealth and money











like that will ever happen