[game_preservation] Internet Archive Starts Archiving Commercial PC Games?

[Alex Handy]

No, no, Jason i flaunting copyright and claiming fair use. He has no
agreements, thats why they've also put TOSEC on IA as well.ee
On Dec 16, 2013 7:45 AM, "Benj Edwards" <editor at vintagecomputing.com> wrote:


> 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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