European petition to preserve video games
(eci.ec.europa.eu)
from trougnouf@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 2024 20:13
https://lemmy.world/post/18187819
from trougnouf@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 2024 20:13
https://lemmy.world/post/18187819
European petition to preserve video games, please sign š¾
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Signed!
Thank you! :)
Iāve long maintained the US needs to start a National Video Games Archive akin to the film and sound archives. Committee selection and all.
Better just leave it up to individuals. No need for the government to get involved.
Getting the government involved does not in any way impact the ability of individuals to do it. The national Film and Sound archives are national treasures that provide a critical function when it comes to preserving media that hobbyists canāt duplicate. Their value for the arts/humanities and the preservation of culture simply canāt be overstated. For starters, a national video game archive would presumably store source code/as many generations of builds as possible, a lot of which do not exist on the world. Theyād also follow proper backup protocols for these assets.
There is no downside.
Urgh. Canāt even sign it. Fuck Brexit.
They blow their load with the UK government as well by asking the conservatives rather than waiting for some reasonable people with functional brains to come in
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Done
At some point Iām just going to start donating to the EU
Itās called taxes.
How to pay taxes to a country you donāt live in
You can send me money, Iāll have to pay taxes on that
EU isnāt a country
Thereās no countries in the EU? š¢
How do you leave it in a āfunctionable stateā? Drivers disappear, hardware changes, libraries get updated, osā update or die off, etc. Youād have to expose the source code to the public at that point and if I was a developer Iād want nothing to do with that market then.
Good.
With that attitude, also good.
Itās just about not intentionally breaking stuff.
I can still run Blade Runner which came out in 1997 using Wine, things donāt die off that easily when they are not broken on purpose.
Signed, thanks!
Signed it