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However, this is still an area with a lot of uncertainty. When it comes to the weirder, obscure games featured on this blog, open digital game preservation is usually accepted because either the developers and publishers have long gone out of business or the games have been effectively abandoned. Game preservation efforts are sometimes only possible because of widespread illegal copying and modification of commercial games, and the distinction between this type of preservation and piracy can be unclear, in some cases if it exists at all. However, they often operate in a legally murky area that can overlap with video game piracy.
Copies of out-of-print games are openly shared as “abandonware” – a term used to refer to games for which copyright has not been actively enforced – and groups like the Internet Archive provide free, open access to digital game collections on the grounds of preservation as a form of fair use.ĭigital game preservation efforts like this are among the few viable options for many people to play rare and out-of-print video games. Most video games ever produced are no longer available. ≪ Return to Resources page A note on piracy
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