[game_preservation] Online DRM

[Vowell, Zach]

This doesn't have much to do with DRM mechanisms, but it's an interesting little footnote to EA's history of copy protection....maybe call it the pre-web attitude to copying.  It's a snippet from the Command Summary document found in "Robot Rascals" (published by EA in 1987):

"For your convenience, "Robot Rascals" is not copy protected so that you can easily make one backup copy for your own use, or install the program on your own RAM or hard disk.  Please show us that copy protection is unnecessary -- do not give copies of this product away.  Thank you."  [emphasis in the original doc]

Very polite :)


Zach


On 4/2/09 12:28 PM, "Andrew Armstrong" <andrew at aarmstrong.org> wrote:

That, along with Henry's comments, really does make it seem like the
most sucky system ever - what I'd half expect from laws of course.

Either we'll have to look to propose something for next year (I presume
it runs yearly) somehow if anyone is interested, else the Americans on
this list might be having legal troubles with some of their efforts, or
just, well, let it all lapse!

No idea about how to coordinate it however. I'm not American, good luck
letting a UK citizen into the USA law books and procedures ;) It'd have
to be sorted, I guess, between the digital archives, libraries and the
Library of Congress.

Andrew

Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue wrote:

>

>> A question to the procedure: Is it necessary, to propose that an

>> exemption should be keept every three years again after it was

>> granted first? Or does it remain automaticly until someone proposes

>> that it should be canceled?

>>

>> Andreas

>>

>

> I looked at this a bit more in depth in the fall, and looked at the

> list of proposals up for review, and this one was not included. I am

> fairly sure that someone has to sponsor it for it to remain.

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