Congress Just DESTROYED Retro Game Preservation...

[@Volsberry]

The library of congress is not congress itself. Make sure you let viewers know this. The House of representatives didn’t vote on anything related to this. lol

[@PixelsNcreatureS]

"library" doesn't get clicks

[@viviorko]

He isn’t bright and he’s not a journalist

[@odnetnin4720]

No, but rgt is being very misleading and it seems he doesn’t even fully understand. Making it seem like the government is protecting companies and going after the “money”. This is not the library of congress. It’s a repository and has copies of video games. That they aren’t making and holding roms is where the beef is at, but the library is not for the preservation of titles for the future, more preserving the time of release.

[@viviorko]

@@odnetnin4720 , on purpose or just doesn’t know better?

[@jmogler]

If the House had you can rest assured they'd have fucked it up.

[@chief664]

"The Industries is making greater concerted efforts to reissue games" you mean the same industry that won't let us own our games anymore?

[@0rDinaryRob]

They want to make it all digital anyways, but they want to keep the control.

[@supersonicmario56]

@@0rDinaryRob And emulation is just one way of taking control away from them. Physical media being the other, but slowly they're trying to diminish that one, and Nintendo going hardball on anything emulation makes it somewhat difficult but not entirely (they can't go after emulators of other consoles). If it were up to them, they'd come into your house and take all the physical games and consoles, that were paid for BTW, tell you to get a subscription to play them again, at least the ones that have remakes/re-releases, and throw the rest into the trash-vault for IF they want to release it again in the future. The ideal solution to this would be to just not give them any money for a considerable period to knock them off their high horse and show them that we're not to be controlled. They've forgotten the basic concept of the marketing exchange process.

[@Rosskles]

Believe me or not but an actual DEV who is working and has been working on the biggest titles for the past 15 year has said the same thing. So even industry people agree even if it has to be anon in public.

[@L337m0j0]

The preservation of games isn't needed for human society and is NOT important to human civilization. If we lose all games that have been preserved, the human race wouldn't be affected in any way other than children crying they can't play a game. Let's be real here, these are just video GAMES. GAMES thats all they are. It is not our right to have every single game available online for download. Sorry to burst your bubble but this is just the truth and it is a luxury to down load any game you want. I love video games but I can also see the truth lol

[@pwx9000]

@@chief664 right.. digitally there but no more hard copies. Sony recently made the decision to have in their PRO versions, no disk. So now you see the risk. One cool thing is, once you buy a game , you can have a plethora of games you can download anytime. So idk if that's a move Sony should make to have diskless consoles, now it's really looking like a , " move to PC " situation.

[@Lou-T-Fisk]

Set my 9 year old nephew with an emulation machine for his birthday he hasn’t turned his Xbox on in over a month he loves NES games is currently obsessed with mega man

[@brianwright9215]

🔥🔥🔥

[@DuffleBagDon508]

Unc of the year 💯‼️

[@smellybondoape]

Keep up the good work.

[@badboy-gn8fu]

You're a good father

[@AndDeathForAll82]

My son dropped all of his PS4 games when I showed him Goldeneye.

[@ToABrighterFuture]

For the record, the Library of Congress, isn't Congress itself. After the elections are over, this might not be a bad idea to discuss with your Senators and Representatives, for any of you who want to get active on this.

[@robertwendal5894]

Correct these are career non partisan offices that the only oversight they have is the funding they get from Congress, you can't blame either party on this one.

[@psymagearcade]

I already wrote a letter recently to my Congressman about getting rid of Section 1201 of the DMCA. It affects a lot more than just video games and it's just bad law at the end of the day.

[@kysierkevin]

@@psymagearcadeas if your letter will do any changes 😂😂😂

[@potatosquad120]

When Kamala wins talk to her

[@_ghr0_]

The old people who can't send emails aren't going to care about something they consider a child's toy. Vote for more Millennials now that back the right to own and repair, and don't do that dumb partisan only vote. There are senile old people on both sides of the aisle that need to be removed from congress.

[@cineologist_]

I love this country, but I’m so EMBARRASSED of the U.S. government right now. They can’t seem to do anything right. They haven’t been for years. Get money out of politics!

[@zarc0n]

Money out of politics? Politics resource is money...how would the county work🥲

[@Valkron11]

It all went to crap in 1913

[@cineologist_]

@@zarc0nNo, I meant in terms of “campaign donations” from companies or rich folks AKA bribes when these politicians are running for such positions. Obviously, these “donations” require something in return when these candidates win. That means laws are passed against the average people. It’s really sad and maddening.

[@heartbraker86]

⁠@@zarc0neasy just keep printing money. Like they been doing.. taxes is the biggest scam ever.. you mean to tell your illegal taco man makes more money then me and they pay no taxes.there genius.. so yeah get are money out of politics ..they gotta tariff other countries for them too sell there goods here.. so yeah get are money out of politics

[@Jokerwolf666]

@@zarc0n Pay them less and hold them accountable. You will see change.

[@Retr0gam1ngR0cks]

Remember folks: keep your media collection… ALWAYS!

[@cool3865]

unless you have the early cd games, those were printed badly and are subjected to disc rot

[@marccaselle8108]

​@@cool3865the oldest PC CD game I used to have was mega race

[@-Joyfull]

@@cool3865 You can always burn a copy to a new CD-R, and/or make a secondary copy to an external HDD, and make a third copy to a USB thumb-drive.This is exactly what I do. My data won't abandon me.

[@jorgezaldivar3113]

Exactly!

[@niospartan]

Imagine all the cool stories and books we'd have missed out on if people treated them the way they treat older video games

[@paulaclark2101]

We do treat books the same way. You’re not allow to print your own Spider-Man comic and distribute it without Marvels permission. Gamers want an exception. They want to be able to claim they own Mario and not Nintendo. Nintendo has no say or rights to Mario, only gamers.

[@wifi961]

Yeah

[@wifi961]

​@paulaclark2101 No, you don't. Books get censored all the time now.

[@Kimvanloocke]

@@paulaclark2101 Still angry a boy who died wanted Spider-Man on his tombstone as his final wish and was denied

[@Kimvanloocke]

@@wifi961 video all media games they all get censored all the time now.

[@Jokerwolf666]

Start downloading romsets now.

[@marksowell5066]

where's the best place

[@Shady_MilkMan52]

@@marksowell5066glow somewhere else, fed.

[@wutang6020]

Wow I did reply to you but it deleted instantly lol

[@ApolloMcrib]

Vimm's Arcade

[@nickangelo16]

​@@marksowell5066The Internet

[@aaronroberts8601]

Good thing i have a 12tb hard drive with everything on it.

[@russianbot9471]

Get multiple drives

[@MarbleGiant]

Need a backup strategy

[@nicodimus2222]

"A" as in 1 hard drive? What happens when it fails? Get some redundancy before you get burned.

[@PeteOliva]

​@@russianbot9471I pick up a new massive portable hard drive every year during the holidays when they're really cheap. I have multiple copies of my massive collections. It sucks that we're in this situation though.

[@TheSixthSLoT]

@@nicodimus2222Name brand storage has an extremely low failure rate. If he backed up his files onto any kind of SSD made by SanDisk or Samsung, he should be good.

[@Stacksonem]

“How do you steal something that isn’t sold” hits the nail on the head. I am more than happy to pay for something, but I can’t buy it, then I should be able to use it anyway. It doesn’t affect anyone’s bottom line.

[@marccaselle8108]

If eBay didn't exist, I'd never be able to buy intellivision games for my intellivision.

[@IcyPolarBear369]

Game Preservation is terrible these days. Gaming is my favorite hobby. I game on Retro and New.

[@Stacksonem]

@@IcyPolarBear369 I hear ya. My steam deck lets me play my games I’ve been playing since the early 90’s. Again, I would love to be able to buy these games, but the way things are set up, I have to emulate them because publishers don’t want to let me buy these games.

[@jaredstultz944]

If the government won’t even talk to the people, then why are we voting them in office to make laws that would harm us instead of helping us

[@ZebraEnt]

Because you're supposed to vote for someone who will stand up for what you want, not elect someone to ask the voters to vote on every decision they make. It's called elected representation. Vote wisely.

[@slick_link7516]

@@ZebraEntthat’s the problem. No one represents us. They represent their donors

[@ZebraEnt]

@@slick_link7516 then vote in someone that doesn't represent donors. These people exist, they just don't have funding to get their names out and actually win elections. If you really want to make a difference then volunteer, donate, etc and help someone who you believe will have your best interest at heart instead of a donor's.

[@Kimvanloocke]

​@@ZebraEnt but we are not represented polititions act just like companies and lie cheat steal scam against our backlash

[@LawWonderTV9]

Maybe I should run for Congress. Mr. LawWonder Goes to Washington. I'll fight for the gamers' rights and make emulation legal. It's time to Make Video Games Great Again!

[@bendragon1000]

The reason game companies are trying to bury classic games is because they were functional products the day they were released that a customer only got charged once for on the day of purchase. Now games have a starter fee paired with subscriptions, updates, dlcs, expansion packs, microtranstactions/cosmetics, and lootboxes. We're right back in that arcade funneling our quarters into a machine.

[@Queenofthesevenseas]

Spot on❤ that’s is very true

[@cosmicsvids]

Honestly why do people buy crap nowdays back then if a game was bad it sold poorly and was forgotten about now bad games are best sellers like pokemon scarlet and violet. If people did not buy this crap then games would still be complete on release or they simply would sell bad and fail.

[@Queenofthesevenseas]

@@cosmicsvids That’s an excellent question I have asked myself that many many many times over the years🤔 and I still have not found the answers. It’s still confusing to me why bad incomplete trash games sell so well😓 and get rained so highly by these supposed zombie game journalists. even more confusing is why actually good complete out of the box none cookie cutter games and ideas get trashed and criticized up the river 🤔 and anyone who likes those kinds of things is literally hated on and in some cases given death threats☠️ Yea I’m still waiting for that answer

[@Wobble2007]

Bingo, they don't want to compete with themselves, why would Joe buy a modern game with terrible or no gameplay, no proper single-player, poor writing if any, zero quality music, loaded with microtransactions, piss poor optimization and so on, when he already has a much better version of that game that is feature rich and brimming with gameplay sitting on his shelf or in his GOG collection, personally I have so many quality classic games on my shelf that I never have to buy a single modern game ever again, if it wasn't for some of the great smaller independent devs and the bangers Nintendo still puts out, and the few decent AAA devs like Remedy Entertainment, PlayTonic, Pendelo Studios, Valve (HL3 where are you), Double Fine and a few others, I would never buy video games any more, but I'm really enjoying Victory Heat Rally, Super Kiwi 64 & Yellow Taxi Go Vroom Vroom for instance, there are some really fantastic examples like that being put out on GOG (and for rent on Steam if not available to buy on GOG).

[@謬]

UNDERRATED COMMENT

[@Valkron11]

Game companies know there is more demand for retro games than modern audience games. Most of the time, game companies won't sell what we want, and we won't buy what they crap out. Time for a divorce 😊

[@sfoldy]

This is true but it will take some time of slumping sales before they'll figure it out. The rise of retro gaming in the past couple of years combined with slumping sales of the games (cough cough crap) that the game companies put out is started a turn of the ship, but until it really kicks them where it hurts, they are not going to listen to customers. All we can do is keep doing what we're doing and wait for them to wake up.

[@hass556]

Illiterate

[@viviorko]

Yawn. You guys keep talking and the industry keeps making money. You got them right where you want them sport.

[@Valkron11]

@viviorko I'm seeing a lot of studio closures, not many sales. The only ones making money are the diversity grifters

[@tepesmode]

@@viviorko Citation definitely needed on the industry being healthy.

[@surfingraichu7594]

If a game is 15 years old or at least hasn’t been rereleased in the last 15 years it should be legal to emulate and game companies should keep those dates in mind if they actually care about making money of their old games instead of holding 20+ year old games hostage for eternity.

[@pgtmr2713]

I'd say 10 years. Put some pep in their step.

[@paulerlingheuser8453]

Dude you can't do that w movies

[@pgtmr2713]

@@paulerlingheuser8453 We can if we chsng the law.

[@TheBreakdownWithGregHoyt]

​@@paulerlingheuser8453while you're correct about how we "can't do that with movies" due to copyright law, I'd argue movies and games are vastly different in how they're treated. With movies, you'd be hard pressed to *not* find a film available on current standard mediums despite it's age (as in DVD and Blu Ray). Aside from minor exceptions, just about any movie produced since the 1930s can be found and playable today on modern hardware. Games...not so much.

[@iamboody]

Just admit you are a filthy pirate.

[@heatherkramer3139]

This has nothing to do with Congress. The Library of Congress is an entirely different entity. Video game copyright issues probably isn't even on Congress's radar.

[@ThreeMs1989]

And we know Roms will always exist. Whatever goes on the internet stays on the internet forever. And we won’t let the ESA win this. They are a horrible corporation just like Nintendo is!

[@RealAlphaDrum]

Library of Congress* Not Congress itself.

[@richardhudson3014]

That's why it's up to us the retro video game players to preserve the games that we grew up with and grew to love and keep on gaming

[@vashshadow]

Time to start "throwing tea in the harbor"

[@VOAN]

The Harbor Tea Party?

[@retrogamermax8287]

​@@VOANRicco Harbor tea party. Let's all become Bowser Jr. and become pirates! Screw Nintendo!

[@andrewcole9824]

Because you can't pirate video games?

[@jrtalkin5558]

@@andrewcole9824because I’m not paying 100s for ancient games, it’s not piracy if they don’t sell it anymore. :)

[@SweetTeaKillah]

​@retrogamermax8287 pretty sure Nintendos fingerprints are all over this

[@observer.b_e_l_l_i_s]

Last couple years has taught us game preservation is an absolute necessity, especially disc games. Someone create a way to duplicate disc unedited uncensored must happen.

[@Wobble2007]

Eh, it's called a disc burner, been around for decades lol, unless I misunderstand you somehow 0_o

[@damian9303]

@@Wobble2007it still cannot replicate the small imperfections which are often used as disc protection

[@Wobble2007]

@@damian9303 Never heard of a game that wasn't ripped & copied. DRM that cost millions usually is broken inside a few mins by the best groups.

[@damian9303]

@@Wobble2007 obvs PC master race as many these days prefer to simply emulate given soaring costs, but the closest you can do on console is to either softmod or chip it

[@Wobble2007]

@@damian9303 I'm just referring to backups.

[@WarmMukwa]

There is usually a comment period for federal changes. There is a law that protects regular folks having a say. If citizens were not properly consulted, they need to be. Video games greatly contribute to recent history as well as to current culture.

[@Terra-rc8zs]

can we protest better copyright laws please

[@pigs18]

Sure, you can take on Disney and Nintendo any time you want. Can I set you up for a boxing match with Evander Holyfield while we're at it?

[@baronyfan]

Just pull a million mask march but for copyright itll work trust

[@謬]

No justice. No peace. 🙂

[@VoiceOvaGuy]

Eh, the scum protecting it have WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much money. Just keep pirating, don't give them money, and spread the word hoping others also stop giving them money. Unlikely though. Fools will buy anything these days. Looking at you Pokemon games on Switch that were lower quality than hot dog water.

[@chadbrownlee3677]

Arrrgh! Looks like it be business as usual, boys. See ya' on tha' high seas!

[@NetflixForeign]

It's the Library Of Congress, not Congress though. They have preserved films after Jimmy Stewart made an impassioned speech on the floor of Congress WHY it needs to be reserved. There needs to be a Jimmy Stewart moment.

[@balaam_7087]

Legal system infringing on my right to own in perpetuity any game I purchase? Check. Eyepatch? Check. Peg leg? Check. Arr! Roms off the starboard bow, prepare to board!

[@joeszymanski3540]

Arrrrgh!

[@DarthTinderalla-qm9zw]

I don't want to pirate games. I just want to play games on any devices I own without the constant monitoring. There's only a few new games I actually want to play and most of the games in my favorites are 10-30 years old.

[@psymagearcade]

This doesn't necessarily destroy actual preservation but it does hurt the availability of long out-of-print games for sure. Not the end of the world, but not the best decision either and honestly, these decisions should be up to a court to determine fair use, not a bunch of bureaucrats.

[@lyianx]

TL:DR - Game companies told us they dont want to relinquish the rights because they will lose money if people have access to older games and are not *forced* to buy our new garbage. We don't want them to have any options but the options we present to them and can profit off of them, so no. And if you reject them then here's a bribe...errr i mean.... ~donation~ *wink wink* for absolutely no reason.

[@NintendoTV64]

What do these companies have to gain from withholding classic games from us, and in some cases, deliberately removing them from purchase? You should be allowed to purchase or play retro games any way you want to without political bullcrap getting involved.

[@Vel_178]

Jewtendo will sell it to you on the switch. Again and again

[@Nano12123]

most likely so that in case they think of rereleasing the game, nobody would have access to it, thus diminishing sales

[@Wobble2007]

Because they don't want to compete with themselves, in a nutshell, video games used to have much higher standards, much better artistic merit, writing and gameplay quality, without that element being available to the mainstream, it will leave them unburdened to sell slop to the masses, and let's be honest, most of you buy it up in the millions, thankfully people are at least starting to realize they vote with their wallets.

[@KamikazeChinaman]

You will own nothing and you will be happy, peasant.

[@AsherTheModder]

@@Vel_178 That phrasing is quite unnecessary.

[@aaronellis5468]

It’s always about corporate greed it’s always has been

[@slick_link7516]

So we have to pay taxes for………….these dumbasses? God I wish we would all just stop paying taxes

[@eye-of-omega]

we need that yub-nub moment

[@brondster47]

And yet services such as NSO ( Nintendo Switch Online) allows you to play old games that are emulated "legally" all because you Have to pay a subscription that they can get rid of with no hesitation or care to the consumer..... Starting to think that courts are being paid off to force consumers to these not so much valued services.....

[@VoiceOvaGuy]

Corrupted government does love being in bed with greedy businesses to take advantage of the average Joes.

[@arturomail]

I see you have your Wii U there. I wanted to thank you. I was inspired by your earlier video and went ahead and modded my club’s Wii U. I host a retro games club at my high school and our Wii U’s disk drive simply stopped working. I don’t know if a kid dropped it or whatever. It doesn’t matter: it stopped reading all our discs, and the eShop is closed. So now it works again and we can play the games we had on disc. I get to share my love of old games with young people and I thank you for helping me do this.

[@sureberferber9101]

ROM Collecting is the new Retro Collecting.

[@conza1989]

Overall in support of emulation for preservation but just answering your question at 10:43. You obtain software without a licence, very simple, you have unlicensed software. Same reason why, a backup of a game you have licence for, isn’t stealing, you have a licence for that game. If the licences aren’t sold any more? This is unanswered in some senses, but really the game isn’t available as you weren’t able to obtain a licence. You could purchase the licence used though.

If actual citizens and not central bankers wrote the copyright law, all these classic games would have been public domain already.

[@nunyabusiness896]

100% Fck Disney for ruining copyright terms. Patent is 20 years but copyright is basically until long after we're all dead? WTF?

[@RichieBoothie]

It's worth the trip to make your way to Rochester and check out the museum. It's vast and there is so much to see! I live about an hour from there and there are new things to see every time a travel there.

[@ronniebx4664]

Congress? Who TF is congress, think about that. Emulation will never stop LOL😊

[@joshuaanderson1712]

Old people who likely have no real idea of what the internet is, probably thinks music piracy steals actual CDs from businesses with every download.

[@chizick14]

Shout out to the Strong Museum! Went there with my kids last year, highly recommended if you are in WNY! We all had a blast.

[@elmasheavy89]

The politicians are already in the corporation’s pockets. These gaming companies have been donating massive amounts of money into political campaigns for years now.

[@Supersteam09]

I agree. There’s no harm to be done if the item is not sold or gaining profit. Thus, there’s no market if the market isn’t benefitting anyone.

[@pigs18]

We see this in other fields. For example, Hasbro hasn't released certain figures in their Transformers Masterpiece line because third party manufacturers beat them to it and ruined the market for some of the figures. The game companies are concerned that you won't buy a Mortal Kombat 4K Kollection if you can already easily play Mythologies: Sub-Zero.

[@eduardogarcia-cortez8357]

Unfortunately, this will just cause more piracy.

[@VoiceOvaGuy]

That's not very unfortunate at all. The best future is the destruction of current AAA greed infested industry. Then another golden period for gaming can finally happen again, instead of this slow, long march into a deep pond.

[@SuperKhalid95]

GOG just started a new initiative called GOG’s Preservation Program, this is a really great move.

[@jodyjohnson265]

They can't stop this because there are some games that have licensing and the only way to play these great games is via emulation F these greedy corporations

[@Couchtripper]

This seems a big waste of money by the VGHF. No company is going to prosecute a single user for having researched a game they downloaded. This seems to be about people wanting to feel legally validated to do this. They should just do their "research" and carry on without the sanctimony.

[@tinmole9032]

If I can't "own it, it's not piracy"

[@N-MCMXCIX]

What we need, is for copyright law to change. It's unconstitutional in its current form, as the creators of works are meant to only have a temporary monopoly, but instead it's permanent within everyone's lifetime. What should be the law, is that copyrights for all works should last only 16 years with renewals only until age 50, and failure to renew by all rights holders after any 16-year period results in the work's immediate induction into the public domain. But there's another problem: Even if American copyright law were forced to obey the constitution, it wouldn't necessarily apply to works originating from Europe or Japan.

[@elmasheavy89]

Politicians won’t lift a finger to do anything about it now

[@joncitizen8060]

The voice of "the people" is the one that will win in this issue. People don't like being dictated what they can and can't do. My gratitude goes out to all the emulation pioneers as well as those who put time and work into any kind of video game preservation. Video games are a part of our history and that history should not be forgotten.

[@Glitchy1988]

Preservation does not equal accessibility. Something can be preserved but not be available to use. I REALLY feel like it's less about about preservation and more that people just want to be able to download/play them. Here is an example: A bunch of games are sealed in a vault so that in 1,000 years they are still there. You not being able to play them doesn't matter, they are still being preserved. Point being, stop using the word "preservation" incorrectly. Games not being able to be "emulated" on a website doesn't mean the games aren't preserved. Internet Archive is literally made for preserving games/movies/books/music. People keep trying to push stuff and the cry when they get blow back.

[@PeterDahu]

Preservation means piracy. Capital G gamers don't care about preservation.

[@oriongear2499]

“Something can be said reserves but not be available to use.” Unless you make it available to your small friend’s circle.

[@VoiceOvaGuy]

In a way preservation DOES mean availability. Say we want to preserve a specific book, where's the sense in locking it up somewhere nobody can experience it for 1,000 years? That kind of defeats the purpose of preserving it in the first place...the context at that point could be lost and with it the entire reason for preserving it in the first place.

[@Glitchy1988]

@@VoiceOvaGuy Okay, but we're not nearly to the point that people absolutely need to use the "preserved" copies. If anything, blame the collectors who just have games sitting covered in dust just to have them, meanwhile people who actually want to play them are assed out because said collectors make the game go up in price. Not saying that is the case for all games because some games have had a very limited run but there is LITERALLY no reason to go download duck hunt or similar games because you can readily find those everywhere. For a game to be made available like this people should have to prove that it's not available otherwise.

[@Sadler2010]

I believe that if publishers want to fight for an old or "abandoned" games then they should make it available on a newer platform or let emulation and/or streamplay occur and then IF they decide to do a release or remake then they could restrict it then. But as long as A: the copyright has lapsed, B: the publisher has ceased to exist, C: or it is rare or otherwise unavailable for even the original platform, it should be allowed to be preserved by any and all means, Digital, Physical, or Other... As an owner of 100's of Vintage(or just old...) Console and PC games I believe in saving every game possible!

[@therealjaystone2344]

Shout out to corporations lobbying our government. You can say Nintendo is ahead of our timeline when it comes to war against preservation.

[@VOAN]

Nintendo is not stopping preservation, they are stopping piracy. You can emulate and play NES, Super NES, and N64 game but anything Switch, Switch 2, or 3DS, you better wait 2-3 gens after fir those if you wanted to emulated those cause Nintendo still had rights to a lot of games on those platforms which is why they are going after Ryujinx, Yuzu, and Cemu but not PocketSNES, bsnes, SNES9x, bpb, mGBA, Mupen64, Project64, Dolphin, VisualBoyAdvance, nestopia, and FCEUX.

[@therealjaystone2344]

@@VOAN old ROMs aren’t safe either, you know?

[@3RR0R210]

​​@@VOANthey went after dolphin I thought? Anyways, the old emulators, like snea9x, nesticle, etc were left alone because they had no proprietary code from the consoles. That was always well discussed anytime Nintendo went on their yearly "crusades" as we used to say, taking down ROMs from sites but leaving the emulators alone Nintendo still goes after old ROMs occasionally, it's just cost prohibitive most the time anymore, but with switch online service, that's how Nintendo is rigging the system to be allowed to keep going after old ROMs. Nintendo is making it's old games available, so that it CAN go after old ROMs. The online service was a ploy. I thought YUZU, and those are busted for including official code.

[@WulfilaBelmont]

Well Nintendo does preserve their own games, so they aren't against preservation. They are against unmitigated access to copies of games.

[@therealjaystone2344]

@@WulfilaBelmont they just want our money for their crappy emulators

[@artisticflavaz8460]

It's ultimately up to the owner of the copyright. They own it and have the power to do what they want with the game. Congress is not trying to make it an umbrella decision for all retro games.

[@barryschalkwijk9388]

Bonnie most be so happy you finally professed your love for her!

[@blizmo2]

Already have most all the ROMs & emulators on storage & multiple devices

[@midnitekreapa8372]

Pirates ARISE ✊✊✊

[@centrevezgaming4862]

LMFAO

[@JonHill-yj3lm]

Remember greed runs the world

[@YoshiAngemon]

Congress wants the people of the present to "Think about the future!," and not emulate the past, but pay the third-party sellers their inflated prices!

[@kuma1388]

No, it’s the library of congress, which is very different than actual congress

[@CapitalismDeathSpiral]

Learn emulation software, hyper visors and virtual box. You can make 80% of games that are super old work perfectly fine.

[@Gametester110-qf8vs]

*Nothing has changed here. Like always:* Gamers gotta take matters into their own hands with back-ups, emulation, High-Seas, etc. We've NEVER been able to depend on the big corporations for "gaming preservation" in ANY capacity.

[@cool3865]

what do you think the movie or book community have been doing

[@markl1109]

On the other side if you own something you get to decide what you do with it.. just because you don't make it available for every new generation doesn't change that.

[@NecroBanana]

Nintendo has dirt on these politicians.

[@Kimvanloocke]

besides companie money legestlation their grip is too strong

[@JasonWilliams-y6g]

I visit my personal retro museum everyday on my pc. I'm keeping this museum alive for as long as I can.

[@MarbleGiant]

So, basically, nothing has changed.

[@chrisjohnson9542]

Lol. The title of this video just reminded be of that movie "Mars attacks" where they are watching the diplomatic meeting at the Whitehouse on TV and the aliens open fire and start blasting everyone and the grandma starts laughing and says "they blew up congress"

[@carlizzleb7233]

So you say you want smaller government? This is because corporations have lobbied for politicians to keep allowing for corporate greed. What I really want is a government that works for the people and not for corporations.

[@sunwukong5518]

Then you have to vote properly

[@joeszymanski3540]

Well then we're off to a good start.

[@VoiceOvaGuy]

@@sunwukong5518 That's one out of millions. What do we do about the millions of morons barely mentally capable of continued breathing? Voting only works to fix issues when most people capable of voting have some level of intelligence. This is not the case today.

[@sunwukong5518]

@@VoiceOvaGuy The only person in the US who was willing to target big corporations for their bullshit was Sanders but yeah he was never let close to the White House

[@morepowerr]

I am sorry but I believe all copyrights should be removed for movies, books, videos, or games more than 25 years old. This also goes for patents on drugs and any tech. And if they wish to retain the copyright or patents they need to update the medium and change at least 5% of the content. And re-distributed them.

[@brichan1851]

The company/companies that step up and prioritize gaming preservation will dominate and be seen as industry leaders. The companies that fought against this will be playing catch up. The next few years will reveal who is really in it for the love of gaming. Pay attention.

[@Syragar]

4:10 - "You want LESS government. You don't want MORE government, kids!" This this this this! I only wish more people truly understood THIS!

[@audiohazard1203nut]

Lobbying allows the rich to make decisions. Keeps them rich.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

What about the harm that comes from these companies not releasing quality new games that leads regular people to seek out older games that may not even be in print or have a modernized version available?

[@ALfillups]

I live in Rochester, the Game Museum is AMAZING. You should check it out RGT. You could make a video about it, it’s that good.

[@Oysterblade84]

As long as we can hold onto emulation being treated as a ''grey area'' then we'll be okay. If that changes well then it's game over for us.

[@VoiceOvaGuy]

If it ever does change, we all have to be ready to flip on a VPN and download as much as we can before it gets removed. Re-upload it after the storm settles a bit.

[@retrogamerfan123]

Nintendo is smiling right now

[@hypnotize107]

Prolly lobby work of nintendo ☺️

[@kiodiekin]

companies have a right to protect their copyright for 70 years or so. even if its not in circulation. its not about poracy or preservation. creators are protecting intellectual property which is a right we have when filing.

[@lurkerrekrul]

Copyright is the new religion. Back in the middle ages, the Catholic church was basically the supreme ruler of the land in many countries. While kings were technically in charge, they all recognized the church as a higher authority. Today, while governments are nominally in charge, they all seem to recognize the copyright industry as a higher authority. The copyright industry demands something and governments just roll over and give it to them. Copyright infringement is the new heresy, it has to be routed out, and guarded against at all costs! Really, when you look at it this way, the parallels are scary.

[@Queenofthesevenseas]

And somehow risky is not surprised by this😩 considering the current era and time we are in this seems to be on par with the collective narrative ☠️ This was a good video RGT thanks❤ Most I can do is back up save and collect physical copies of the games I want to have for a long while without being beholden to the winey wimpy degenerate zombies that are currently in control.

[@elodvezer1790]

hey RGT how do you feel that your own community is censored and cant freely write to you without playing word games in the comments to be able to post freely 🧐

[@jonathont5570]

That is why I have a personal NAS that holds all my digital stuff... I don't trust the cloud.

[@zarc0n]

I ronestly am sad...hopefully when a new generation of politicians come around they will have a bit of game culture

[@DivorcetheHorse]

it's odd that the Government would go this route. IF company's had to re-register their copy rights like the movies or books or music, then there would be more money in it for the Government from these registrations. If the company's no longer care about titles, they simply lapse into Public Domain as the other forms of entertainment does!!!!

[@25Deception]

This was once the case over a hundred years ago. Now that the copyrights last 95 years (the length keeps increasing), everyone is dead before anyone cares about anything that has been released for public domain. They will be culturally irrelevant, and would at most be things that sit on their podiums with a plaque saying there was a time when people played games from these cartridges on consoles, and people could go on virtual adventures with representations on their television screens, and then say this was only a representation, because of the lack of preservation

[@Roger-fs5yo]

I don't need ATARI to release Custers revenge again, cause I've got it in the original box and leather folder😎

[@NecroBanana]

And I downloaded it cause I can. Atari don't care fr

[@purelogarithm]

Atari had nothing to do with Custers Revenge - that was done by another company

[@Roger-fs5yo]

@purelogarithm oh I know. But the company that made it went out of business decades ago. So if I had to guess ATARI is the only one that can release it again.But then again who knows🤷‍♂️

[@Zuranthus]

US copyright laws are beyond excessive, 10-15 years should be the max

[@Adrian-wh3mk]

This country isn’t a country for people, it’s a country for business.

[@cineologist_]

Big businesses, yes. I’m all for small businesses.

[@kysierkevin]

Isnt that what Capitalism is 😂😂

[@TR-cp1fo]

The corporations run every aspect of life in the USA.

[@Adrian-wh3mk]

@@kysierkevin and you think that’s what a healthy society/civilization looks like?

[@philharrison2991]

This guy never did commerce in school.

[@CaliPatriot88]

This is what becoming ungovernable and piracy is for

[@VaporShiroVTuberCh]

The only thing that hurts rereleases is alteration and censorship to the original content. THAT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL TO CENSOR THE ORIGINAL CONTENT

[@FerinaAryele]

Almost everything we get is censored in some way or another from the original overseas release like Paper Mario The Thousand Year Old Door they censored out that murder scene in that room.

[@VaporShiroVTuberCh]

@@FerinaAryele it should be illegal to advertise rereleases as the same product if censorship is involved

[@anonytuser711]

Elites don't want you to know that you can play retro games instead of modern garbage. I have like 69 games.

[@Neidhardt150]

Remember it’s always morally correct to pirate Nintendo games

[@bobafett4265]

If the Game's History Foundation wanted another thing to bring up on this situation remind them of how the early days of the Film Industry wasn't taken seriously, made plenty of fortunes and because of that a serious lack of preserving the works and art were pretty common. A lot of film and even some early TV Shows were lost before preservationists made the arguement against this lack of protection which the preservationists won although a lot was lost in the end, some of the original episodes of Doctor Who is a famous example. History is repeating itself once again if The Game's History Foundation plays their cards right they can get some early wins to further preserve the industry and this time do it right for this newer frontier of entertainment. I want to see them win against the odds they are played against cause damn it I love video games and the crazy culture that comes with it.

[@igotbit9454]

Keep voting left

[@centrevezgaming4862]

Kim Belair for vice president if Harris wins the presidency

[@jorgezaldivar3113]

Why does congress have to get involved!? I am already suffering from too many losses in the stuff that I love in gaming, anime, and the world of voice actors. The loss of Atsuko Tanaka, voice of Bayonetta herself, is a big blow to my heart already but now THIS!?

[@TubeandJar]

Why should they be allowed to emulate these games online for research? What is there to research? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Take this same scenario and apply it to movies and tv shows. Not all of those are available for purchase digitally / re-released. Lol, research.

[@freedustin]

These things are supposed to go public domain after a while. The whole research thing is just an excuse and not the reason why. It's because the public is who made it profitable, so it should go to the public when the copyright has expired. It just makes sense. There used to be a thriving reprint industry. Now its basically gone. The country that invented the printing press, also destroyed it. It's so backwards.

[@politicallyincorrect4452]

Man you are levels of ignorant that I simply cannot understand.... have a blessed day safe space Larry

[@ProjectionProjects2.7182]

So nothing about games can be studied? What about its code or its files? Can those not be studied?

[@TubeandJar]

@@ProjectionProjects2.7182 They aren't asking for the source code, they are asking to emulate.

[@TubeandJar]

@@politicallyincorrect4452 Thanks for providing a reason. Very helpful for making me understand. Why did u even reply?

[@IronYTrain]

Oh noes! ACCLAIM might rise from the dead and contemplate re-releasing Quarterback Club, better strike it from the internet.

[@mozydiaz8296]

Pretendo is really pissed off apparently. So does this mean that torrents also will disappear?

[@cool3865]

lol the day all torrents are gone is the day the internet is also gone

[@mozydiaz8296]

@@cool3865 hope so !

[@kchalu]

The ESA should set up a store on the Switch where you can buy all games from their back catalog. Easy, but of course they won’t do it.

[@jedirun]

"you will own nothing and be happy"

[@observer.b_e_l_l_i_s]

Increasingly becoming more true with each passing generation. Gen Z is straight up already conditioned to owning nothing as a majority cant imagine it getting better from there.

[@Jokerwolf666]

@@observer.b_e_l_l_i_s Revolt will happen, it is already bubbling up.

[@ShinUltima]

For the record: You realise that the person who made that statement didn't frame it as a _good_ thing, right?

[@xxJing]

We need to make lobbying illegal and bring down the length of copyright. Otherwise we are going to have a situation where everything is legally owned by someone and you won't be able to write a single sentence without infringing on someone's copyright.

[@sevenfacedsin]

Simple solution: All games should go public domain after a set amount of time, for example 12 years UNLESS the copyright is renewed for a remake or remaster. It’s win win for both sides. It also incentivizes bringing old games to modern hardware, while allowing the consumer to freely play old games if there is no modern way to play them.

[@sunwukong5518]

12 years is too early, say 30 years

[@sevenfacedsin]

@@sunwukong5518 yeah, it was an example that popped in my head while listening to this and playing D3 (still, for 12 years).

[@sunwukong5518]

@@sevenfacedsin You got to be realistic companies can still easily sell 12 to 20 year old games without remastering them too much. For 30 year old games that is barely the case and we see that with how Nintendo treats them in the NSO membership

[@sevenfacedsin]

@@sunwukong5518 but what about the games that are dropped after say 5 or 6 years? Something needs to be done about the Disney Vault style releases as well, like Super Mario 3d All Stars. Pissed I can’t play that on my Switch unless I fork over to a scalper or collector.

[@sunwukong5518]

@@sevenfacedsin The 3D all Stars collection sucks anyway. SM64 is unplayable garbage with a Switch controller

[@DanielSanchez-us5tc]

the laws on emulation we want and should follow-own a console or computer unit, reverse-engineer (check, test, and make a copy of) a bios (basic input/output system) without stealing and mass producing it, make a back-up of roms and isos in a folder on a computer or console without selling them online or at a physical store without permission where such permission is required, and make copies of video games without mass production and distribute them online without permission where such permission is never required

[@steveleavell114]

I could see this going all the way to the Supreme Court and they rule in game preservation's favor as they have already ruled games as art.

[@Kimvanloocke]

i would love that very much

[@setsers1]

that would be nice...

[@purelogarithm]

This isn't. They were petitioning the Library of Congress, not Congress itself. Second, there isn't a judicial matter here - nobody is suing anybody nor is there a court case being litigated over.

[@BigSnipp]

I've played classic video games with my nieces and nephews. They loved playing NES, Sega Genesis, N64. They don't care that the games are old or have simple graphics. They're fun to play with friends.