Dear Record Labels: Focus on Buyers, Not Thieves

Re:Dear Record Labels: Focus on Buyers, Not Thieves by michael_dorfman on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @07:29AM (#2513485)

This is a massive loss of functionality from games past.

Really? Maybe it's my age showing, but most of my "games past" are on 5-14" floppies for DOS, or cassette tapes aimed at the Commodore 6502 architecture.

Portability over time has thus far proven to be largely a myth. If you think that the CD/DVDs you've purchased so far are "buy once, play forever", just you wait...

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Re:Dear Record Labels: Focus on Buyers, Not Thieves by vollmond on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @08:14AM (#2513554)

But in that case, again, it's entirely up to the paying customer. You could have kept your Commodore 6502 to play those games (just like I still have my NES and Sega Genesis) - it's up to you. The actions of the company (and the existence of the company) have nothing to do with whether you can play those games in 2011.

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