Last week it was reported that GameStop, a clown show of a company peddling meme stocks and cheap video game merchandise, had unceremoniously and without notice shut down Game Informer, a magazine and website that had been publishing in some form since 1991. The decision was a terrible one for many reasons. For readers and […]
So this guy’s argument is that companies with commercial websites should be forced by the government to keep their websites online for some predetermined amount of time after announcing that they will be shutting down, so that other people can pilfer the content, on the grounds that shutting down a website includes relinquishing all property rights to the content hosted there?
I’m gonna go ahead and guess that this guy isn’t a lawyer.
Also, and maybe this is a stretch, but this article expresses a suspicious amount of concern for integrity in games journalism…
It’s not gamergater fighting for preservation, you just enjoy being a bootlicker.
lmao at being called a bootlicker in a conversation about GameInformer Magazine.
Oh shut up.
Archiving decades of journalism, when the rightsholders plainly aren’t gonna make money off it after it disappears, is not some dastardly scheme to ruin a business that just told you it’s closing. You are throwing shit at the concept of a library. Reconsider.
Jesus Christ, as if bad faith means good faith is a lie. Hey creationists tried pushing nonsense as academic freedom, so anyone else ever using those terms must be equally full of shit. No way one group was just fucking lying.