Given their past remasters, there's a good chance that even Konami doesn't have the original source code lol

That is worthless considering the public with no access to source code accomplished more in the first week after release.

I’m curious what response, if any, Capcom will have. Compare the recent Mortal Kombat 1 paid Fatality backlash where WB/NRS at least made a half-hearted attempt by eventually bundling 3 paid fatalities together. But I find western complaints often fall on deaf ears to overseas developers, whether it’s because some of…

Firstly, my condolences to those affected: this is awful crap.

I was gonna say how many people actually bought this content, obviously there are affected consumers, but for real, who’s actually buying these shows?

Something something high seas, something something torrent.

They really should be taken to court for this. Licenses expiring is a common thing in digital distribution. The solution is to pull the licensed content from the store, not user libraries. That’s been the standard practice for games, I don’t see why it should be any different for movies or TV shows.

This is one of the many reasons I’ve started collecting blu-rays and 4k discs in 2023. 

You guys are getting to the point where it seems like deliberate ignorance of what’s happening.

Tim just keeps punching himself in the junk over and over again. He got his ass handed to him in the Apple case and Google is arguably even more open and free with their store policies than Apple is. What makes Tim think he’s going to get anywhere except another dead end and massive legal bills? As Google said, Epic…

What’s most appalling about this situation is we’re not talking about an obscure Japanese MMO that’s been shut down, satellite broadcasts available in only one country for only a few hours a day for four weeks in the 1990s, or some indie game that sold like 73 physical copies in 2002... We’re talking about regular…

Emulation has at least made it easy to continue playing games from the 80s and 90s, as there are a ton of rom and ISO dumps.  But games from the 2000s are a lot harder to find, and I suspect that’ll be the case for games in the 2010s and 2020s due to their larger size and difficulty hosting them

Physical media has a shelf life. 

Here’s to piracy. It’s really the only reason why video games from the 80s & 90s are still available to play. Want to play that arcade game you spent way too many quarters on back in the day? Piracy lets you do that. Want to play a beloved Atari or Sega Master System game? Piracy lets you do that. The companies that…

not unlike the film industry before the move to digital. Half of all American films made before 1950 and over 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever, because it wasnt seen as an important thing to preserve until film became respected as an art form and not a sideshow distraction.

Hoping gaming starts preserving…

I read a Twitter thread (I know, I know...) saying that with streaming and the new “kill and write-off” strategy we’ll never have a new cult classic film. If it’s a good movie but it tanks at the box office, it’s just gone forever and can’t be rediscovered later. I mean shit, can you imagine if John Carpenter’s “The…

This is one of the main reasons I’m so frustrated about the death of physical media. Nobody can come over my house and throw my DVD collection away, but with streaming there’s no such guarantee. At the bare minimum I wish we had a movie version of Steam. Vudu is close, but with all the restrictions on the content…

I saw it on twitter, someone mentioned that all movies that get vaulted become public domain.

Remember kids. Piracy is WRONG. You should always respect the decisions of a megacorporation. They’re better than you and they’re a better judge of what’s right and wrong. If the corp decides that a movie should never be seen again, you should bow to their supreme wisdom.