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   You Will Never Know Why (why@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 23:28:28 JST You Will Never Know Why
   i dont see why anyone would make an official paid-position effort to preserve games, when it's very obvious that fans will do that for free
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     You Will Never Know Why (why@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 23:28:28 JST You Will Never Know Why

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     like the GOG preservation thing is all the most popular already well running games that have exhaustive pcgamingwiki pages, mods, active torrents, etc. it's worse than useless, since it sets an expectation that this is the way preservation should be done, and gives GOG the power to just say "yeah we won't preserve that game lol" and it'll go away forever if the fans don't do it. so responsibility always lies on fans. and torrents will always be the backup. why fight this?
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 23:30:36 JST Sick Sun

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     @why someone at a company that does that should just be responsible for providing the data in a portable and easily consumable format that fans then preserve. so like, the game, maybe a DOSBox configuration, the activation key, all in a zip file and provide a bencode checksum so people can be confident they're torrenting a known good archive
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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 23:33:55 JST 御園はくい

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     @sun @why >bencode
     NO U ARE THE BLOODY BENCODE. BASTERD GIFT CARD REDEEMER
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     You Will Never Know Why (why@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 00:08:23 JST You Will Never Know Why

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     @sun i just cannot imagine anything about preservation happening
     1. at a corporate company business profit shareholders business copyright legal above board professional level
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     2. sufficiently "preserved" and not lip service temporary bullshit
     
     unless copyright is abolished (or taken down to ~15 years retroactively no exceptions)
     or software piracy is considered fully legal no exceptions
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 00:08:23 JST Sick Sun

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     @why purely hypothetical, I don't see it happening either