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Preservation is a good thing
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IT BELONGS ~~IN A MUSEUM~~ ON MY HARDRIVE
I was thinking Internet Archive, but either works.
Came here to say this. Me and my wife were playing games from DOS and win95/98 days thanks to the internet archive recently. It really felt like digging up memories.
In a way a lot of us end up becoming amateur librarians. When the big megaservers get hit with something nasty, or they decide to purge it all for AI datasets or something. (Idk it's a stupid timeline anything is possible lol)
I like to think our fellow amateur archivists who started collecting such things for personal reasons will be a force for preserving meaningful artifacts of human experience.
SO DO YOU!
Throw him over the side.
Most here are just talking about one form of media, why not include video games like "Black and White" made by Lion Head Studios and not sold anywhere, but can only be found on archive sites for dead games. Edit: if you want to find these abandon games the site that I use is My Abandonware
I do think I'm going to start a retro game ROM collection in general. I have a sizable physical collection already, but there are just so many that aren't easily available anymore.
For the early consoles you can torrent rom packs containing everything released for the platform. It's not a big download until you start getting to the N64/PSX timeframe.
Or the absolutely legendary "No one lives Forever" that is stuck in a Limbo of Legality - iirc it's not clear who has the rights to distribute the game, so it isn't.
Also, ripping your local libraries dvd collection for personal use is called archiving and depending where you live completely legal.
Oh shit forgot about the library. Definitely going check out some movies.
Yeah that "depending" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there lol.
Also big depending: At least try not to make it TOO obvious that's what you're doing. Most library people are cool, (Source: know library people) but it's kinda obvious when we see someone racking up the hold shelf with like 30-40 DVDs and CDs a week. LMAO
Unfortunately the mega media interests do occasionally try to pressure libraries to enforce copyright violations or whatever. (Like telling you you can't photocopy textbook pages or something)
I personally try to just archive things I own, primarily, or things that are special and important to me, but that's also because I have maybe 4TB to work with and hardware is insane again.
But there's a point when it starts to look like compulsory hoarding lol. It's kinda an open secret/ gray area, and a few people being stupid will likely catch attention. (Look what happened to archive.org fending off broadsides from the publishing industry.)
I know its not everywhere but where i live its 100% legal and protected under fair use as long as i don't distribute outside my household.
Where I live the library card costs 5-10 € per year and they carry blu rays, video games and e books. Needless to say I've now renewed this card for the 15th year in a row
Yeah I "archived" all my "dvds"
"my"
I mean, I paid to access them through Netflix, back when Netflix still sent DVDs through the mail. They were "mine" for the moment.
"Ours", comrade.
Arr ... chivin'.
I'm going to steal this.
Typical.
Maybe even go as far as to distribute it further to the masses for free??
Unbelievable!!!
And to what end, at what cost? A slightly better (or at least not actively worse) society? Why won't anyone prioritise the illogically excessive needs of the few over those of many??
Hey, I like the sound of that.
It's conservation. Archeology is digging up what was once lost.
So finding a lost video game is archeology. Keeping it safe is conservation.
Ensuring games can't be lost in the first place and that they continue to work in the future is preservation.
All needed, but different things.
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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