nekothegamer

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[–] nekothegamer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

aka normal people except americans

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[–] nekothegamer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

lol i know it was just a saying

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[–] nekothegamer@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 days ago (5 children)

but come on, it's not like they're modern videogames or something, they're old stuff from the 80s and 90s that one would never be able to play without access to the original hardware, so even in that case it's about preserving the media, not committing plain copyright infringement to the original game publisher or something

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[–] nekothegamer@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

thank you so much, you're doing god's work

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Yet again the Internet Archiving is suffering big this time, a coalition of major record labels filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive demanding $700 million for the extensive catalog of 78 rpm records. 78s are sometimes more than a century old at this point and i bet a lot of them are out of copyright, but i suppose for the few that still are majors are hitting it big towards the IA

This lawsuit is pretty much another existential threat to the Internet Archive and everything it preserves, including the Wayback Machine, and we're fucked if we ever lose access to the Wayback Machine.

the original article asked to sign a petition, but i think a more logical way to support is to donate them directly so that they have more money to better defend themselves in court in this and other cases they'll undoubtedly face in the future