[game_preservation] EFF and game servers

[Alex Handy]

They have not heard back.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu> wrote:

>  Alex,
> did that some weeks ago. I sent them the name of a contact in Poland.
> Henry
>
>
> On 11/4/2014 4:59 PM, Alex Handy wrote:
>
> They have asked for the Good Old Games guys. Can anyone here put them in
> touch with each other: EFF and GoG?
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>   Though this would interest some people here as well:
>>
>>  "The EFF's requested exemption would also apply to single-player games
>> that have to "phone home" to since-dead authentication servers to confirm
>> an activation key, making them unplayable without modification. "
>>
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/11/eff-asks-for-the-right-to-revive-abandoned-online-games/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  --
>> Marty
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