[game_preservation] Internet Archive Starts Archiving Commercial PC Games?

[Benj Edwards]

If I had to guess, I think Jason is uploading those commercial game CDs 
to force the issue (i.e. preserve them at all costs, regardless of 
legality), probably with the consideration that legal action against the 
Archive for those old games is unlikely.

Or maybe IA does have some agreement cooked up with those games' 
publishers.  But I seriously, seriously doubt it.

Benj

On 12/15/2013 3:36 PM, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> I wonder who that is ;)

>

> Andrew

>

> On 15/12/2013 19:14, Jim Leonard wrote:

>> On 12/8/2013 1:03 AM, Mike Melanson wrote:

>>> All of these seem to have a release date of today (December 7). So 

>>> maybe

>>> they're planning a big announcement.

>>

>> A sampling of metadata for that collection shows 

>> "<uploader>jscott at archive.org</uploader>", so I would imagine you can 

>> contact that address for more details.

>

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