The recent patch for Resident Evil Revelations highlights Capcom's practice of incorporating new DRM into some of its games. This software seems to disrupt modding and could...
Copyright in the US started as 14-year duration with an optional extension of more 14 years. Considering how fleeting digital media is, this seems far more reasonable than 120 years as works for hire.
People may advocate for physical media however much they want, in 120 years most likely it will all have become trash. It’s not a reasonable duration for cultural preservation.
I mean a lot can happen in 120 years, like that’s an insane amount of time to reason against something for the good of consumers.
Nintendo published a Mario collection last year and then stopped it’s sale. They failed to provide a medium for those games for a very long time and I think they should not have grounds to argue against people pirating their content given they didn’t make it readily available.
I don’t even think they should be allowed lock it behind a new console like saying they offer the title on the switch Nintendo online service, it’s not good enough.
I’m okay with 20-30, but it is purely about the money. If you stop selling a thing - you don’t get to whine when people get it for free.
The deeper issue is that works under copyright should be a lot less restricted. You wanna say you own it until everyone alive today is dead, okay sure, you psycho, but thirty seconds of it appearing in an hour-long Youtube video is no threat to that. Literally mind your own business.
Copyright should have a 15 year limit.
Publishing rights must be used or piracy is legitimate.
Copyright in the US started as 14-year duration with an optional extension of more 14 years. Considering how fleeting digital media is, this seems far more reasonable than 120 years as works for hire.
People may advocate for physical media however much they want, in 120 years most likely it will all have become trash. It’s not a reasonable duration for cultural preservation.
I mean a lot can happen in 120 years, like that’s an insane amount of time to reason against something for the good of consumers.
Nintendo published a Mario collection last year and then stopped it’s sale. They failed to provide a medium for those games for a very long time and I think they should not have grounds to argue against people pirating their content given they didn’t make it readily available.
I don’t even think they should be allowed lock it behind a new console like saying they offer the title on the switch Nintendo online service, it’s not good enough.
I’m okay with 20-30, but it is purely about the money. If you stop selling a thing - you don’t get to whine when people get it for free.
The deeper issue is that works under copyright should be a lot less restricted. You wanna say you own it until everyone alive today is dead, okay sure, you psycho, but thirty seconds of it appearing in an hour-long Youtube video is no threat to that. Literally mind your own business.