Entertainment Software Association – “archiving of old games is hacking” – Gamestar

The archiving of computer and video game classics should actually be considered a good thing. The Entertainment Software Association sees, however, different: it compares the whole thing with hacking and software piracy

The Entertainment Software Association is the archive of classic games in museums with hacking and software piracy same.

In the US, between the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) kindled a tangible dispute. Reason is called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act – or more precisely: its section 1201. The forbids namely all users to make modifications to games by continuing to utilize after the publishers have taken off the network, for example, the game server

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Since that also includes communities, museums, Achive and researchers, is designed for preserving old computer and video game classics in the public interest to be extremely difficult. Therefore, the EFF has asked for competent Copyright Office to obtain a waiver for scientists, museum managers and archivists, so the memory can be maintained in the early hours of the video game industry for posterity.

On the other hand, however, the ESA fights together with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The three lobbying organizations also argue in a letter to the US Copyright Office that the so-called hacking stand in close connection with software piracy and contrary to law. In addition, undermines such an approach all copyright principles on which is based the current copyright legislation

Especially for scientists and researchers, ESA has therefore a tip ready. Instead of relying on their studies modified consoles they should prefer to Cloud computing technologies fall back.

It is not yet clear how this dispute will end at the end.

The Entertainment Software Association is a US-based organization that addresses, among other things, the management of copyright and market analysis and government relations of game developers. Its members including Electronic Arts, Microsoft and Square Enix.

In the Electronic Frontier Foundation, it was a non-governmental organization which campaigns for fundamental rights in the information age.