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Especially if nobody pops up with legitimate claims on works. And when a system is broken (like how copyright and patents mostly don't encourage advancement or creativity. Most people in the tech community know how broken copyright and patents are. The game would have to be re-released on a new platform, recoded, made better and you'd be looking at the new developers making the money on appstore sales. Most of them have no contract to earn royalties.
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Even if suddenly a movie was made about some classic game, it's not like suddenly the game creators are gonna get a massive revival of players or royalties. Yeah there's money in nostalgia but it doesn't go to creators. After everything now, how much do the creators stand to gain if the games can't be played? Even somebody with the biggest heart isn't gonna "care" about a dissolved publisher of a game, when nobody on staff at the new name corp even had anything to do with the game back then. Publishers survived a while, or didn't, merged, squandered, were bought etc etc. The devs made money out of the gate as employees or through publisher contracts. But we paid a lot of salaries back in the day didn't we? A lot of old games were homebrew but the vast majority of games that people know of were through publishers. Then the systems eventually stopped working and we no longer had options because we were just dumb average consumers we couldn't rebuild our systems. We paid their salary with first-run purchases and pumping in the quarters. Bought them where? And to play on what? Most of us reading and interested in this are of the age who not only cared but already bought the games. When you say nobody cares you act like there are these starving video game artists who would be able to afford bread if only WE cared a little bit and bought the games. And they still show up as paid games on devices occasionally because public domain open source is like that.
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Atari released source code to some classics publicly years back.
Lots of those abandonware games are open now.
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Will the side projects people write today get copied and saved in the same way? Will all of the time we spend on working on side projects go to support some archive site? Stuff I worked on as side projects way back in the day, appear to be part of and other sites. I can tell by the downvotes that the community here does not care about permission and encourages the copying and saving of older material as some sort of library. Because all of that was done before the DMCA passed. That is why there were several versions of the old BBS game Tradewars, originally written in BASIC for a TRS-80, and then converted to IBM BASICA, and then in Turbo Pascal, and then Tradewars 2002. That is why you could have a game in BASIC named Star Trek and not have Paramount care that you did. The DMCA changed that so after 1999 copyright law and IP law was more strict. For non-commercial use, for educational use, for parody/satire, etc. In the early 1970's and 1980's there was still a 'fair use' clause in copyright.
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I never saw one penny for such things.īut I see how it works now, I don't own my own works, and they are free to be copied and put on display for others to use for free. All of which got used without my permission. I wrote some things, I had a few Geocities web pages, I worked on some DOS Games, I wrote some games in Commodore 64 BASIC, I helped make text files for a community college BBS in 1989. Some games like Prince of Persia got released to the public so no permission problems there.īTW some of the games are really porn, beware if you got your sons and daughters looking into the old DOS games. The Pirate Bay once did this as well, but it didn't work. The Internet Archive is a non-profit and claims to use the library defense. We are all into this playing old games on modern systems craze, so much that we don't really care about copyright and permissions anymore. The Underdogs did an DOS video game abandonware archive 10 years ago and had to take games down as well. I figure some of the video game makers that have games on Steam and Gog.com will issue takedown requests.Įnjoy it while you can. It is like they are being given free candy, and they enjoy it, even if technically it was stolen.īut there is a DMCA takedown page that copyright holders can request their games be taken down.
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Nobody here on Hacker News or the Internet seems to care about copyright of old DOS Video Games and permission to download and play them. Not all games have permission to be archived.
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