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@dvdnet62@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year ago

Why Piracy Fears are Keeping Some Researchers from Accessing the Games They Need

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Why Piracy Fears are Keeping Some Researchers from Accessing the Games They Need

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@dvdnet62@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year ago
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Why Piracy Fears are Keeping Some Researchers from Accessing the Games They Need - IGN
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Last month, the Software Preservation Network (SPN) made arguments in support of a Digital Millennium Copyright Act amendment that would allow libraries to bypass digital locks on video games so that academics and credentialed researchers could study them. But the games industry is fighting back.
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  • @delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    26•1 year ago

    Games they “need”?

    • @riodoro1@lemmy.world
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      23•1 year ago

      They are doing a very important study.

      • @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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        15•1 year ago

        It’s for science you see.

    • @AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org
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      Yeah, I feel like the article would be more persuasive if they gave any examples of what research they are doing which requires these specific old games.

  • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    It is the gaming industry itself that plagiarizes and pirates others continuously since Pacman. But of course, they don’t want others to do it.

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