When I was a dumb, naive kid, I just assumed that everything ever recorded, photographed, written, etc was saved somewhere in some form for the sake of history, art, science, and just posterity.
It was a huge gut check finding out that wasn’t even remotely the case, and in fact a lot of good shit is gone forever because someone reused the tape or throw it out or whatnot. 😔
Everything we make is special. Even the dumb shit. It all needs to be preserved, catalogued, and recorded.
Video tape used to be insanely expensive, so it was very common to reuse the tapes. Unfortunately, that meant that a lot of the early TV shows were lost. Back then the only way of recording video at home was on film, so it was very rare for anyone to have a copy of them.
I love you Ross. You fighting the good fight. Probably for no reason as I doubt he’ll have any impact… But I’m fucking rooting (I haven’t watched it yet so maybe that’ll change my mind… But On bunny watch… She can’t be trusted. )
edit - just finished. well written, well researched… but seems a lil optimistic even for how realistic he seems to be. but damn it i hope
heWE winIt might have a chance. If even 100 game owners in France all complain to the regulator, they might investigate and issue a large fine? idk how realistic that is, but it’s plausible. Conservatively, if 100K copies sold in France at 50€ a pop (?) that’s 5 million €. That might be sufficient precedent to keep other companies from deleting millions of users purchases regularly. It wouldn’t cost $5MM to build offline play capability into games, especially if it’s designed for it to begin with.
I’m Canadian; I’ll do my part once the petition goes live here, but I doubt Canadian regulators will do shit.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/watch?v=w70Xc9CStoE
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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