A NEW VIDEOGAME LIBRARY! Ludohistory Reacts

[@Argacyan]

I think the copyright issues of the Internet Archive are complicated in the sense of it's impossible to actually make an archive like that & not get into copyright trouble. From what I can see right now the only way in which they wouldn't run into any risks is if the archive was inaccessible - which defeats the purpose entirely. If something is stored, but you're not allowed to access it, the information is not preserved in any usable sense - it's merely accumulated. Either copyright law changes, or they eventually run into enough legal trouble that it gets shut down.

[@Ludohistory]

IA *claims* it has a really strong fair-use case, even for things that are not rare, out of print, or public domain, but I'm with you - I don't have a lot of faith that it'll hold up (though I doubt a case like that would shut down the IA as a whole - there's enough public domain and special collections material to keep it afloat barring absolutely catastrophic fines).

[@ZyllasAthenaeum]

I'm very excited about this!