ESA opposes preserving old titles by museums

[Shadow Lord]

Big surprise there. They are worried the museums will create and infrastructure to allow play, charge for it, and compete with the original copyright holders....


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[Chuck(G)]

Shows what I know--I was under the misapprehension that ESA stood for the European Space Agency.

 

[Unknown_K]

I don't think they are worried about somebody making a few grand a year hosting a retro gaming server, they are worried about people playing the old games instead of paying $20+ a month for the newer ones.

 

[NeXT]

Uh-huh.
Watch me.

Blizzard and the World of Warcraft comes to mind. They absolutely refuse to operate vanilla servers even thought there is a sizeable enough community and shoot down anyone who attempts to release their own emulation of the vanilla servers.
"You can't run that! WE said it's dead!"

 

[Unknown_K]

Blizzard quit making stand alone games once they got the online gravy train going. I was so mad when Diablo III was online only.

At BlizzCon 2017, Blizzard announced that it is developing a classic server option that provides a way to experience the game before any of its expansions launched <=== from the wiki so they are still doing something with it.

 

[luckybob]

Big surprise there. They are worried the museums will create and infrastructure to allow play, charge for it, and compete with the original copyright holders....


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[Shadow Lord]

I don't think they are worried about somebody making a few grand a year hosting a retro gaming server, they are worried about people playing the old games instead of paying $20+ a month for the newer ones.

Actually they are worried about that because legally that creates a basis for other people to do things. However, the real issue is the someone, like CHM, is not about to setup a server for Warcraft to make money. This is just a poor excuse for them to maintain a stranglehold on IP.