minnix@lemux.minnix.dev to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agoPublishers are absolutely terrified "preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes," so the US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservationwww.gamesradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square145fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareTrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoCould you imagine trying to get there to be libraries today if the concept was new? “We can’t possibly just let people read for free! What, do you think literacy is a right? It’s a privilege!”
minus-squareRandelung@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-219 days agoSame for firefighters. “PAY people to sit around in case a fire breaks out?? That almost never happens! Also ignore everything else they do.”
minus-squareStern@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·18 days agoIronically that was the case for a good long while, and has been the case on exceedingly rare occasion in the more modern era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefighting_in_ancient_Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_firefighting#United_States https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39516346
Could you imagine trying to get there to be libraries today if the concept was new? “We can’t possibly just let people read for free! What, do you think literacy is a right? It’s a privilege!”
Same for firefighters.
“PAY people to sit around in case a fire breaks out?? That almost never happens! Also ignore everything else they do.”
Ironically that was the case for a good long while, and has been the case on exceedingly rare occasion in the more modern era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefighting_in_ancient_Rome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_firefighting#United_States
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39516346