On: Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years

[tlrobinson]

Maybe a condition of copyright should be that you submit the unrestricted media to Library of Congress, and it gets released upon expiration of copyright.

[JoshTriplett → tlrobinson]

Nobody would test that version, so it wouldn't work.

Submission of complete source code, on the other hand, could help.

[pbhjpbhj → JoshTriplett]

>Submission of complete source code //

But you'd still need to have the build process, so really you'd need submission of the full dev environment. But then you might also need the hardware to run it ...

Personally I think it should be copyright protection or DRM: the demos doesn't get the DRM stuff to enter the public domain so strictly speaking DRM stuff can't be copyright as the deal of time-limited monopoly is broken by the corps that are using DRM.

[tlrobinson → pbhjpbhj]

> "Personally I think it should be copyright protection or DRM"

Yeah, I like that. Sort of like how something can be a trade secret or patented but not both.

[colejohnson66 → tlrobinson]

Isn't that what the Internet Archive can do? They can host old games under the pretense of them being a "library".