I use vintage camera lenses a lot and hate collectors. They drive prices up so they can keep their perfect lenses in a room somewhere like this guy and his “do not upload” folder. To me it’s perverse. Thoses games could be being enjoyed by people but this guy has to squirrel them away.<p>I understand that it's their right to do whatever they want to with their "treasures" but the point of a lens is to take photos, the point of a game is to be played, the point of music is to be listened to.
<i>In uploading the game to Mega, it’s possible the folder will be pulled from the internet. But in doing so, the person advanced the interests of game preservationists worldwide by leaking the this game and others.</i><p>If the leaker had any bit of sense, (s)he would've copied everything first.<p><i>“It's a weird situation because this really is not a great way to be preserving games, just collecting things that leak out,” he said.</i><p>There's a similar situation with availability of service information for appliances, cars, laptops, phones, etc. --- a lot of it is out there if you look hard enough, but almost all of it comes from leaks.<p>Either way, archive.org is certainly a very good place to put things like this.
I'm curious what the deal is with the 'collector' who had all these rare games. Was he just hoarding them? How did he come across them? It sounds like he didn't like having his collection spread to a wider base.
Didn't the developers save copies of the game?<p>I know we've lost a lot of big movies from the early days of cinema because Hollywood studios didn't think of archiving the films, or even the scripts, responsibly but I thought we'd learned from that.
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