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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by Vaskivo on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @08:12AM (#19553176)
I remember a torrent site for old games. You had tremendous community efforts documenting and cataloging games. Gathering every thing from the different releases, patches, music, art, etc.

It was a gaming historian's wet dream. They were even beginning to record the releases from different warez scene groups.

But everything went away because, form what I gathered, someone in EA noticed you could download FIFA 96 for the Mega Drive/Genesis.

Unfortunately, I don't remember the name of the site. RIP

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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by orbital-decay on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @09:15AM (#19553692)
It was Underground Gamer. The quality of the collection was astonishing, many games were impossible to get or purchase anywhere else due to abandonment. And everything just disappeared overnight.

People still have all this on their drives. I'm sure the community can be revived someday.

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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by Vaskivo on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @10:44AM (#19554596)
It WAS! Thank you.

I sure hope the community can be revived.

There's a lot more bandwidth and cheap storage today than 10 years ago. I'd love to be able to contribute and share to it.

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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by vanderZwan on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @11:34AM (#19555219)
> People still have all this on their drives. I'm sure the community can be revived someday.

I so dearly hope this is true for other sites like What.CD

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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by billfruit on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @10:01AM (#19554139)
Perhaps it was "Home of the Underdogs", http://homeoftheunderdogs.net
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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by tapoxi on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @09:50AM (#19554008)
I imagine EA doesn't care about sales of FIFA 96, but they sure as shit worry about losing their FIFA license.
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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by Vaskivo on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @10:46AM (#19554617)
Playing devil's advocate, I think some lawyer got nervous about the licensed stuff in those games.

The FIFA games usually have licenses to use the teams and player names. and lots of licensed music.

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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by vanderZwan on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @04:27PM (#19558237)
IANAL so I'm genuinely asking: isn't that the responsibility of the licensed teams/player names/musicians and not of EA?
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