The most popular games will likely continue to get pirated, all this will do is guarantee that some small vintage games are lost to time.
The most popular games will likely continue to get pirated, all this will do is guarantee that some small vintage games are lost to time.
Even worse. I’ve checked out digital eBooks and digital audiobooks from my local library. And I listened to those audiobooks for FUN. The AUDACITY!
Audacity is what I used to record those audiobooks so I could listen at my own pace, btw.
May I could check out a paper copy of those bits, would that be okay? Then it’s not a digital copy
I answered your question on another thread of the same topic, but I’ll answer it here too for anyone else who has the same question: The law is just about digital backups. Vintage stores are still legal, and if anything this would boost sales at a vintage stores. If the game you’d like to play is unavailable at a vintage store or on eBay (or wherever else) then it will be entirely inaccessible for you to play legally.
As someone who may or may not have stripped DRM from library books, they certainly never seemed to care about that. And it was never even to share, but rather to store for myself so I could read it at my own pace. And the worst part… I read it for RECREATIONAL USE
You’d better not also be reading books for fun. By their logic, any recreational use of books from a library should also be considered illegal.
I do think Harris will win, but the fact that it’s this close is disconcerting.