[game_preservation] Old PC Game Sales for XP/Vista‏

[Andrew Armstrong]

As far as I've read, it is them working with the IP holders - usually 
publishers, and getting the code/game from them, just like any retro 
range ("Sold Out" in the UK for instance, although that's more just 
cheap reboxed copies).

Since the publishers obviously still want to make some money from it, I 
doubt it's going to be anything they'd give up for making copies 
available for free and available to archives, museums, libraries or 
anything else :(

Andrew

Henry Lowood wrote:

> Alan,

>

> More power to GOG.com, but in the U.S. removing copy protection and 

> distributing for payment is almost certainly a violation of DMCA.  

> There was an exemption for cultural institutions if the original 

> medium was associated with an "obsolete" platform, but that has 

> expired, I believe. 

>

> And, of course, removing copy protection means the software has been 

> "hacked" to some degree, so it's not the original version of the 

> software.   Likewise, I would think, the "guarantee" of hardware 

> compatibility points to a possible alteration of the software.

>

> So, yes, accessibility is very important for the current generation.  

> This is not a long-term preservation solution, but the DRM issues are 

> significant, and it is interesting to see how GOG is tackling that 

> problem.

>

> Henry

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