>>or the actual research necessary to produce a quality article. Plus we're talking about >>Ars Technica here, while they're not quite as crappy as Gawker, they're still writing >>for a general audience rather than people like us.
Two sentences of the article that could be better imo, but understandable the article is meant for gamers and tech enthusiasts not a law type review article for "Perry Mason lawyer-like" trial court afficionados.
"It’s a bit ironic that the technology originally intended to prevent illicit copying is now threatening to prevent these games from being preserved digitally"
I believe the important part missing or overlooked meant to be for products marketed 'post 2000 AD' that use various forms of protection and then it was amended to exclude games products marketed before 2000 AD. If the original law also included products made during 1980s such as Sega hardware using FD 1094 and FD 1089, I am glad there were sane congressional members that knew better and revised the crappy law....of course it affects USA while Europe and other regions have their own various laws regarding this topic.
I don't remember details of law because it is crappy to begin with and should be tossed away just like the early 20th century laws of "Prohibition". I could continue on, but this is not Democratic Underground web site forums where one can spend all day arguing down to trivial nonsense of various issues.
>For others, there's no known digital ROM dump of the original hardware, usually because > that hardware is only available in a few extant prototype boards floating around.
Part of this explanation is acceptable, but the main part that is missing is various contributors that can help are far and very few these days. I could add the IRS taxes issue which affected and crippled what DU could do in the past, but then that gets back to another topic that is better on the Democratic Underground web site rather than here.
Of the posters there, this poster knows what is going. Has to be poster or lurker here or on Bannister's forums.
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