[game_preservation] Internet Archive Starts Archiving Commercial PC Games?

[Martin Goldberg]

That's an assumption that there's been any rights granting involved.

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Marty

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> On Dec 15, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org> wrote:

> 

> Maybe, or maybe someone is uploading them without the main people knowing. If you get upload rights to a collection they don't check everything after all :)

> 

> Andrew

> 

>> On 08/12/2013 07:03, Mike Melanson wrote:

>> The Internet Archive has been archiving numerous demo and magazine CD-ROMs for a little while now. A month ago, they also launched the Historical Software Archive which curates a selection of old software deemed historically important.

>> 

>> However, today I found the "IBM PC Compatible CD-ROMs" area, which is a subsection of the Shareware CD Archive:

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>> https://archive.org/details/pc_cdrom

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>> Material includes all the Ultima games, System Shock, Syndicate, Sim City, Space Hulk, X-Com, Dark Forces, Myst, 11th Hour, X-Wing, Tie Fighter... the list goes on and on.

>> 

>> All of these seem to have a release date of today (December 7). So maybe they're planning a big announcement.

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