Library of Congress Considers Archiving Games 79
GamePolitics reports on talks at the U.S. Library of Congress concerning archiving our digital cultural heritage, including games. From the article: "The initiative is called 'Preserving Creative America,' and plans to compile (with industry help) a list of the commercial digital content most at risk of loss or degradation. The initiative will also develop ideas for preservation, business models to help maintain archives, and promote discussions between the archives and commercial content producers so that the archives are kept up to date. CM: Hopefully the Library of Congress will consider that many PC games were rushed to market before they were ready. Critical software patches should be included in the archive. That's right Sierra, I'm talking about you."
Will they be playable in 100 years? (Score:4, Interesting)
Too good to be true? (Score:3, Interesting)
Abandonware sites often claim they just do it "so those games don't go into extinction". With this reason gone, there's no reason anymore for game companies to shoot with big shells their way without getting bad rep. Because, they're no longer the "guardians of game culture", and game studios that want to shut them down are dirty, greedy corps that would rather see a game get forgotten before allowing it to exist for free.
With this, abandonware sites are just pirates sites to be shut down soon. So start leeching now, as long as it still works!
It's a little late... (Score:3, Interesting)
Mod's, S3ms, demo's (Score:3, Interesting)
Entire parts of the digital, pre-internet history are being lost with new technology.
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