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Re:Lost Japanese Video Games Discovered in a Folder on a Pri... by im3w1l on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:45PM (#17278905)
Sweden has a law that any published book has to be archived in a national archive. Something similar could be setup for other media.
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Re:Lost Japanese Video Games Discovered in a Folder on a Pri... by gray_-_wolf on Sunday June 10, 2018 @01:19PM (#17279058)
Could work 20 years ago, but now? Games (software in general) is usually patched at insane rates (which version to keep? All of them?) and most games don't work without internet anymore (and you can hardly mandate archiving or never-released-server-software).

Sadly, I don't think there is a reasonable way to do this...

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Re:Lost Japanese Video Games Discovered in a Folder on a Pri... by nitrogen on Sunday June 10, 2018 @01:26PM (#17279104)
and you can hardly mandate archiving or never-released-server-software

Why not? A hypothetical preservation law could require the submission of all servers, assets, and instructions required to make the game useful. Doesn't matter which version as long as the submitted package is usable as a whole.

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Re:Lost Japanese Video Games Discovered in a Folder on a Pri... by vatueil on Sunday June 10, 2018 @05:18PM (#17280189)
The Library of Congress similarly receives a copy of every book published in the United States, though they don't permanently keep a copy of every book.

Many other countries do the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_deposit

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