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this post was submitted on 18 May 2024
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I really struggle with the justification present in the article. “I need to emulate to do my job as an academic” is pretty hollow. “I want to emulate because I want to learn” is the real reason and, as an academic myself, I don’t feel like there’s a higher ground that gives me access to literally anything I want just because I want to learn.
If the argument was “the copyright system is fucked and knowledge needs to be more open” I would be 100% behind that. I feel that way. I just don’t think someone should get to say “show me your secrets because I’ve arbitrarily decided to make my next publication about your secrets.”
The argument is that "we would like to study these works of art in a purely academic setting, and are willing to limit access to academics only, we just need to make sure it's going to work even if you guys stop supporting it"
The corporations involved seem to read this argument as "we are looking to start a game streaming service, please give us free access to all your games to distribute at our whim"
Especially because people who want to pirate games for playing have no qualms. Right now the restriction is specificall on people who want to research legally