Congress Just DESTROYED Retro Game Preservation...

[@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.

[@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

[@PnC_GameZnThingZ]

"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.

[@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]

🔥🔥🔥

[@dufflebagdon8628]

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.

[@Jokerwolf666]

Start downloading romsets now.

[@marksowell5066]

where's the best place

[@adrianvallejos5198]

@@marksowell5066glow somewhere else, fed.

[@wutang6020]

Wow I did reply to you but it deleted instantly lol

[@ApolloMcrib]

Vimm's Arcade

[@nickangelo16]

​@@marksowell5066The Internet

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@josevillouta4588]

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

[@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!

[@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 by 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

[@tepesmode2206]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.....

[@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

[@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.

[@RealAlphaDrum]

Library of Congress* Not Congress itself.

[@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.

[@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

[@SpriteFighter2D]

Still playing Sega Saturn & Sega Dreamcast on a CRT TV. It's looks way better than modern TV's when it comes to retro gaming. The difference is night and day.

[@FerinaAryele]

I really need to test that someday, personally I care more about playing the game than visuals but I've heard CRTs are better and I have quite a few laying around even an old 1984 floor model one in my room lmao it still works I just rarely use it and have a TV stand on top of it and a flat-screen on top of that.

[@SpriteFighter2D]

@@FerinaAryele it's 500% worth it if it's a scart CRT TV. The controls are much more responsive too.

[@mk8-mkwil117]

@@FerinaAryeleyes CRT’s are better even the ones with a built in HDMI it makes old consoles graphics look better and smoother around the edges even modern games look better on CRT lol I played Mario kart 8 deluxe on a crt and it looks way better than on a CRT it makes certain colors pops out more than a modern TV we have today.

[@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.

[@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

[@mastershakelock]

They hate emulation and would completely eradicate online rom and CD image downloading the moment they have the opportunity. They've never cared about preserving retro gaming, only about monetizing the emulation scene so they can earn revenue from past works since most new gaming content is garbage without any artistic and creative integrity.

[@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).

[@retrogamerfan123]

Nintendo is smiling right now

[@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.

[@CaliPatriot88]

This is what becoming ungovernable and piracy is for

[@midnitekreapa8372]

Pirates ARISE ✊✊✊

[@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

[@amyburnette7324]

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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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 🧐

[@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

[@tinmole9032]

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

[@LL-kh7sc]

There is a LOT of misinformation in this video. 1. This ruling does not make retro collection libraries illegal. You can still have a physical collection at a physical library location and allow the public access to it. It only makes “online libraries” illegal. 2. This is not congress or any elected officials. The library of congress is a library, the largest in the world, curated by congress. 3. RC Pro AM is available for sale (or more accurately rent) as part of the NSO NES collection. While it may not be available in your preferred format, saying it is not available is a flat out lie…. Not getting into a moral or legal argument, just stating there is a difference between physical collections and virtual collections (ROMs / Emulation). It seems like the line is blurred between piracy and preservation. People often want to pirate using preservation as a scapegoat.

[@baronyfan]

Shut up zog

[@thedude5295]

Nah. Nobody can ever destroy retro game preservation.

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?

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@psymagearcade]

This doesn't necessary 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.

[@audiohazard1203nut]

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

[@aaronellis5468]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@Particular_Sky]

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]

@@Particular_Sky That phrasing is quite unnecessary.

[@Neidhardt150]

Remember it’s always morally correct to pirate Nintendo games

[@travisv6408]

Luckily USA is a small section of earth. Other countries gonna pick up their lack of!

[@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

[@justin271995]

Honestly, who even cares about congress? They know NOTHING about retro gaming.

[@koschmx]

I'm a developer and I understand the reason. These are media companies and so widespread copying of the intellectual property could lead to damage to trademarks. What happens if a company doesn't keep up with it is eventually the loss of rights to ones own creations. If you've ever seen a brand end up going generic, that's basically the end result. I agree with you, though. After the games have become old, preservation is far more important.

[@elmasheavy89]

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

[@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

[@balthazarbulau4095]

Why are you surprised? Congress and politicians, they are placed and maintained and paid by corporation. Their interest is not to help the population, it's to help the pockets of this corporation.

[@Kimvanloocke]

and themselfs all greedy soulless

[@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!

[@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.

[@JonHill-yj3lm]

Remember greed runs the world

[@Nathaniel_E_Dearing]

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.

[@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?

[@jamesayres5826]

I am not that bothered bu that act. There will always be someone saving the data/ history out of the reach of the government

[@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.

[@Mob-Inc]

I just loaded up on my Nintendo rom sets, as well as sega and ps1.

[@JasonWilliams-y6g]

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

[@eduardogarcia-cortez8357]

Unfortunately, this will just cause more piracy.

[@jg3000]

People emulate an old Mario game. And still buy it for Switch. No harm done for old games.

[@MarbleGiant]

So, basically, nothing has changed.

[@anonytuser711]

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

[@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.

[@Joes-not-greg]

Only in America would an adult male be concerned about kids games. The title 'Congress destroyed ' is hilarious

[@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.

[@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.

[@divorcethehorse-gettingoff7702]

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

[@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"

[@audiohazard1203nut]

Video games have more immersion and content than movies. Yet the preservation for it is considered less than movies. How is that? It's such a huge industry.

[@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.

[@MistahJ100]

I just ordered that 12 terabyte hard drive because of your videos.

[@_ryju_]

Me too brother! They are relatively inexpensive nowadays and are readily available.

[@change1ing]

Sounds like we’re gonna be in an endless rerelease loop now with a finite amount of titles.

[@Knowledgedom4]

I completely hate how the Federal government is handling this issue. Most of the upper and lower house are filled with old people who really don’t understand the issues with gaming archival. They already archive movies, don’t see why not they archive ROMs in a new section or even federally allow ROMs and ISOs to be legal by third party sites. Only way I can see this being justified is if Nintendo and Sony start upping their competition and allow ROMs and ISOs of their games to be released on their website for emulation, allow for different resolutions, different anti-aliasing setting, and have the ROMs be edited by GitHub for mods but, this is not going to happen lol

[@igotbit9454]

Keep voting left

[@beanmchocolate3900]

Games apparently can be found on Facebook Marketplace, but if these games actually work is another question altogether. It may be a good idea to privately save these games until all the physical media has rotted away, and the companies have died away, then we can emulate them when there's absolutely 0 way to get these games again. Keep a bunch of hard drives in pristine condition until the day that these companies have died, then mass upload all of them to be emulated.

[@JoeBoerner]

Well, another route to go is using Article V/5 in the U.S. Constitution, it can be used by States (through District Representatives/Local Government) to propose an Amendment, such as: a) Retro Game Preservation - History (i.e. Videogame History Foundation) b) Available Access for Delisted/Outdated Games, Consoles, and Accessories for Public Use/Public Domain, such as The Internet Archive c) The Removal Copyright, Trademark, or Patent Laws for Delisted/Outdated Games, Consoles, and Accessories If the goal is to do this through the Federal Government route, it would take 34 States for Congress to Call an Amendment(s) Convention. It takes 38 States to Propose and Amendment and 13 States to reject the Proposed an Amendment. This Amendment is not only for Videogame History, it is also so you and I can play these games freely through Public Domain. For example, let's say the Amendment has Passed and a Corporation (such as Nintendo, Sega, Sony, Microsoft) try to send a Cease and Desist. They would be Violating your Constitution Right.

[@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?

[@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

[@uroborous01]

It invokes piracy to NOT have a method of legal emulation of the games.

[@jonathont5570]

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

[@Chrisrobba]

All forms of media should be public domain after a certain amount of time, people that are collectors will still do that.

[@jarbear2179]

Simple way: all games available for research. However, when a company announces a remake/re-release, those retro games will be unavailable once the new remake/re-release is available and has a 5 year cool off period until it can be available again.

[@NecroBanana]

Nintendo has dirt on these politicians.

[@Kimvanloocke]

besides companie money legestlation their grip is too strong

[@elodvezer1790]

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[@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.

[@HundredKnight]

"deter the recreational use of video games..." Did they bother to reread that to themselves first !

[@BloodEdgeTrinity]

The government should just but out from the entertainment industry and focus on politics instead of people downloading video games

[@IronYTrain]

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

[@funkyflights]

These companies want you to sign up for streaming services, they don’t want you to own anything in the future, they want you as renters, monthly residual income makes them happier…

[@blizmo2]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@toddjenkins2561]

What, are they going to stop the internet? No. Who cares

[@Laz3rCat95]

Personally, I think copyright law should be revised to shorten the amount of time video games are protected by it. I think they should be considered public domain sooner than other sources of media which generally get sold for longer by their official makers.

[@Zuranthus]

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