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| A topic about videogame manuals digital preservation. |
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| mrkonasoni:
|Start》| I have always liked preservation of retro games stuff because I truly believe it's a good reminder of the golden age of gaming. So that, a few months ago I spent days searching and fetching manuals that were scanned and available in PDF format, I found out quite a lot but of course just like always there also quite a lot missing. I felt happy because I found what I was looking for and just for preservation and nothing else, so I could like to know, what are your thoughts about this subject. Do you consider this is piracy? I think one of the best things about this is preservation and of course since a lot of games are pretty expensive in the state of "CIB" (Complete in Box) I feel is good that I can at least read the manual of a game that I bought just the loose cartridge or disc. |
| oldgamerz:
I am not sure about the video game manuals in Computer PDF file format as being considered Piracy/illegal. But I read somewhere online that PDF files for strategy guides. Is illegal, to have, since most are just copied and pasted from what's inside the physical books. I have some official Prima books for some games. but the text in the book is too tiny to read. So, I want to use the PDF files found on the internet. For easy reading, but I don't want to do anything illegal. |
| dakooldood:
I wouldn't think it would count as piracy because the game companies are selling the game, not the manual. Legally, when you buy a game, you aren't buying a disc/cartridge, but a license to play that game and the means to do so come with it. So if you go to the store and buy a game, the manual comes with it free. Whereas when you buy a strategy guide, you are purchasing that for the sole purpose of reading. But, I'm not a lawyer so... |
| Warmsignal:
Nintendo once tried to say people didn't have the right to copy their manuals, but I believe they lost that lawsuit. They did successfully have all of their issues of Nintendo Power pulled down from the Internet, so that much evidently is considered "piracy". An old defunct magazine. I love Nintendo, but they are freaking horrible. If any game company cares about their instruction manual PDFs existing online, it'll be Nintendo. |
| tripredacus:
It isn't piracy. Maintaining archives for historical reasons are protected both under US and EU copyright law. |
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