PlayStation Preservation Team is What Nintendo Should Be Doing Too

[Mnementh]

Chrkeller said:

Mnementh said:

I do. I create software. And I love open source, sharing my work. But that is beyond the point, you seem to put forward the idea that enforcing preservation and archival takes away the creation from the creator. It does not. And as I said before, it is already done for print publishing and as I think also for movies. So it isn't a new or revolutionary idea. Just stop pretending that preservation somehow takes away from the creator, it doesn't.

We will have to agree to disagree.  I believe in ownership.  If I create something I own it and I can pass it to my kids.  Nobody has the right to demand I turn my creation over regardless of the reason.  But to each their own.

And this next comment is not directed at you but a general comment...  I would wager a great many people here don't mean preservation as in the games are locked in a vault for historical archives...  what they really mean is games online for free that they can download/emulate.  Just my 2 cents, but I'm not buying the cover story from most in this thread.  Again, not directed at you.  

Well first, the libertarian view that even immaterial things are owned by someone is not how the world runs. Governments put all sort of limits on ownership, be it of material or immaterial stuff. That is the first ot accept here, that governments can and actually do put limits on it. Now in the concrete, the archival rules as I said already apply to other media. Now games have some specialties that have to be cleared, as they are interactive software, but overall there is no general hindrance to a similar archival. So it is not unreasonable if the state demand such archival duties and it also wouldn't equal a disappropriation.

Now to the second part: you assume many people mean something else with preservation than preservation? Well, it may be your assumption, but nobody here in this thread actually demanded that pirate copies become legal or stuff like that, did they? So applying some stance you assume to argue against some other stance is not helping your case. As I said, archival is done for other media and that isn't the source of piracy.