What with all the layoffs across the games industry to compensate for rampant budgetary overspending in publishing, the reality behind keeping retro games within a paid walled garden is about charging new money for old rope and controlling the market to force gamers to play new games.
The specific quote is that “there would be a significant risk that preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes.”
This explains why people like Jim Ryan hate retro games. They think these older games would cannibalize sales from newer releases, which is uniquely stupid.
Yep. They tried for years and failed while the law was on their side. The laws might change but the resilience of data is immutable. Sue one and five more sites pop up the next day. Archivers do it for love while these ghouls only care about money and line go up. They will always lose, so I don’t understand why they continue picking this fight.