[game_preservation] iPhone Game Preservation

[Andrew Armstrong]

Oh, that's certainly the case in the USA. I would have thought film 
archives or industry-helped places would get the raw goods - an 
un-CSS'ed DVD would be easy to get a copy of, despite the poorer quality 
for archival purposes.

Hopefully we'll see the DMCA change, although who knows, that 
"International piracy law" stuff thats so secret looks like it might 
impact worse.

Andrew

Jerome McDonough wrote:

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> On Jul 29, 2009, at 6:35 PM, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

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>> And the question "what is worth preserving from whatever standpoint", 

>> well, tough call. Cut film, deleted scenes, alternative angles and 

>> shots - knowing how the editing, filming, B-reels, outtakes, repeated 

>> shots, storyboard shoots, test shots, location finding, film dailys, 

>> camera setup and repeated takes all went is, for those interested in 

>> making films, and critics too, I am sure is highly useful if 

>> available - although a massive amount of material to store raw. At 

>> least as you said with DVD's and bonus content, this is being 

>> retained more often. Possibly one way around that is to not store it 

>> as perfect quality, which can easily lower it into GB's instead of 

>> TB's. :)

>>

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> Bad news on commercial video DVDs.  They use CSS (Content Scrambling 

> System) to encrypt content as a technological protection measure.  It 

> is easily defeated by a variety of existing tools, BUT, there is no 

> exemption for defeating CSS under the DMCA in effect at the moment. 

>  Any library copying a DVD for preservation purposes is violating the 

> law.  So, the only thing you can do if a copy you own goes bad is buy 

> another one.  If there isn't one to buy ... tough luck.  Yet another 

> reason to focus on the assets before they are packaged up for 

> commercial release.

>

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