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 Posted: Wed, 28th Oct 2015 22:55 Post subject: Limited right to revive games behind “abandoned” servers |
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| Quote: | After nearly a year of debate and deliberation, the Library of Congress (LoC) has granted gamers and preservationists a limited legal method to restore access to games that are rendered unplayable thanks to defunct, abandoned authentication servers.
In new guidelines published today, the Librarian of Congress said that gamers deserve the right to continued access to "local play" on games that they paid for, even if the centralized authentication servers required for that play have been taken down. So if Blizzard, for instance, decides to take down the authentication servers required to verify a new copy of StarCraft II online, players will now be legally allowed to craft a workaround that allows the game to work on their PCs. |
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/10/u-s-govt-grants-limited-right-to-revive-games-behind-abandoned-servers/
Since when does the US Govt do anything nice like this O_O |
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Guyver
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Oct 2015 23:02 Post subject: |
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Oct 2015 23:13 Post subject: |
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Yes, but it is nice theres a law saying you can't actually be sued for it if the product is no longer in circulation.
It's too much to expect there being a law stating that companies must release server software or patch games to remove security measures in case of ending support.
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Oct 2015 23:17 Post subject: |
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cause nowadays you pay for the license to use it, and the company can end that license anytime they want if they announce it early enough. its bad, but its the case.
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Oct 2015 23:26 Post subject: |
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| Janz wrote: | | cause nowadays you pay for the license to use it, and the company can end that license anytime they want if they announce it early enough. its bad, but its the case. |
This.
You don't own anything anymore. The window has passed where people could've done anything about it. |
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Oct 2015 23:34 Post subject: |
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And thus my statement that it shouldn't be the case, that they should be legally bound to ensure their software will never cease to function due to their inaction.
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Oct 2015 23:41 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | And thus my statement that it shouldn't be the case, that they should be legally bound to ensure their software will never cease to function due to their inaction. |
Yes it shouldn't but it is. Whether it's wrong or not won't change anything. Noones going to care enough to invest the time or energy required to get it to change, and a lot of time and energy would have to be invested to change it as it's something that would cost powerful people money if they were legally bound to this kinda action.
On the whole, the average person won't care about this enough as long as he or she can get the next new shiny thing.
It's incredibly sad to think about, but thats just the state of the world today. |
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Wed, 28th Oct 2015 23:54 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | Then fuck the world  |
Yep.
I've become so disheartened because of all the shit thats going on. I've been part of so many "movements/ventures/campaigns" that all had similar goals; To secure personal and individual freedom and rights. Either by securing the individuals right to data, or securing the individuals rights from companies or governments.
Everytime one piece of legislation have been succesfully campaigned against another one just like it, under a different name comes up. You beat that one aswell, and another one comes up, same thing, different wording.
And eventually the people you have rallied in these causes just run out of steam due to other life obligations and your movements falters. Peoples rights and liberties are stripped from them one by one over time through a silent war of attrition.
The big companies and the powerful billionaires will always win, because money governs the world. Not people, not morals or ethics. But greed and ambition. Lobbyism should be illegal. But it isn't and it won't be because the people who would stand to loose money are those who are supposed to legislate against it.
Democracy is an illusion and if you think that governments have your best interests at heart or care about what is right or wrong, then you are sorely mistaken. |
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| Posted: Thu, 29th Oct 2015 00:42 Post subject: |
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Also because majority have no idea and happily piss away their rights without thought or questuon saying things like "beh Google/ms/telcos already have my data" so fuck all our rights to privacy, facebook selfies yay!!!
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| Posted: Thu, 29th Oct 2015 00:52 Post subject: |
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why cant there be a crowdfunded organization that get the subdomains or ip addies with the auth server ( gamespy for example ) donated and with the crowdfunds it is kept up.
I understand some companies go defunct. some dont want to spend money on a old server standing around after 7 years.... we can argue if its worth for them to keep funding it or not. but if they loved the game they made... why not let the community maintain and organize the upkeep if the original devs cant or dont want to anymore?
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| Posted: Thu, 29th Oct 2015 01:43 Post subject: |
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Because there no money in that, can't have a counterstrike or dota running away with 10 millions of gamers were not profitting on.. And fuck god help us when the community just mod 10x better games than we can make
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| Posted: Thu, 29th Oct 2015 04:46 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 29th Oct 2015 04:49 Post subject: |
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| Epsilon wrote: | | Democracy is an illusion and if you think that governments have your best interests at heart or care about what is right or wrong, then you are sorely mistaken. |
I've never thought any different, my friend, not ever.
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Nui
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Oct 2015 00:00 Post subject: |
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Oct 2015 00:34 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | Epsilon wrote: | | Democracy is an illusion and if you think that governments have your best interests at heart or care about what is right or wrong, then you are sorely mistaken. |
I've never thought any different, my friend, not ever. |
 I was speaking figuratively, not directed to you personally. |
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