[game_preservation] More games pulled from virtual console

[Christian Bartsch | softpres.org]

Or just join forces and do it right... we have the tech for floppies, 
but it's a fight against windmills.

Ok, it's more enjoyable to watch TV in the evening than to dump old 
floppies...

Christian Bartsch
The Software Preservation Society
http://www.softpres.org

Am 19/11/2012 21:56, schrieb Jim Leonard:

> On 11/19/2012 2:42 PM, Devin Monnens wrote:

>> Yeah, I've read the Technologizer article. The trouble with it is that

>> piracy does not equal preservation.

>

> I agree, but I will gladly accept a defaced, buggy, badly-cracked game 

> over a near-perfect preservation effort that was never carried out due 

> to lack of access to the materials.

>

> Obviously none of us on this list feel that pirated games by 

> themselves are sufficient for preservation.  I don't feel the 

> previously referenced article was damaging; it is a call to arms for 

> people who can at least pirate things, which is better than nothing.

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