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Publishers are absolutely terrified "preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes," so the US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 115 points 4 weeks ago

Not The Onion version: "'People might actually have fun': Publishers squash video game preservation movement"

If folks today learned that games existed which could be played offline, had no dlc, no microtransactions, no skinner boxes. And those games were actually fun, clearly the whole industry would collapse lol.