Game preservation is a contentious topic. Of course, the only people you find on the side against preservationists are the companies, who love their 90 year copyrights, on the off-chance they can make 5 bucks off something made in 1925. For now, it’s a legal gray area, because games are only 50 or 60 years old (or really, a black area, since copyright law doesn’t really make an exception just because you ‘want’ something you can’t buy).
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