Literally all these games have been easily downloadable via roms for decades. And they'll all enter public domain soon enough.
Just because they aren't available on a "modern digital storefront" doesn't mean they're going extinct.
Netman
joined 1 year ago
just block the memes community
There's plenty of other content to contribute too. It just takes a little bit more effort to find it now that we're all starting fresh.
Youtube is a pretty good example of where the copywrite striking has gone absolutely bonkers. People have to strike their own videos so ensure that a strike against them won't just take all of their ad revenue.
They should have shut down registrations a long time before they gained such a majority of users.
They stand behind the lie that "if we didn't let people in, they wouldn't know where to go"... as if it's so hard to create a new registration page that re-routes people to other instances.
I'll never understand the selfishness of people like that. They know they're actively hurting all of lemmy, but they want to keep all the users to themselves. This thing only works if it's a collection of smaller instances.