Games That Weren't: Preserving Cancelled and Unreleased Video Game History

And to be able to preserve released Video Games, please go support the Stop Killing Games [1] movement and sign the European Citizen's initiative [2] if you're an EU citizen. There is 1 month left to bring the subject to a discussion, and 500k signatures are missing.

[1] https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

[2] https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

I think all art and media should be preserved. It's been clear for decades current copyright laws aren't fit for purpose. Fair use within books is for collection so it should be for digital.

What do copyright laws (which, don't get me wrong, have a whole kettle of issues for sure) have to do with this?

DRM is just a thing that authors choose to put into their media. The fact that they do it because enforcing copyright via legal channels is unrealistic is effectively incidental.

If anything, what is necessary to achieve the objective is putting limits on what authors are allowed to put inside of the media they are producing, which is a heck of a can of worms in of itself that I think zealous preservation advocates are a bit too eager to brush off.

Maybe I don't grasp the full picture, but the amount of patent trolls and media companies constantly attacking the Internet Archive should be enough to empirically prove that our current laws do a terrible job at ensuring media is preserved.