Good Lord what a dumb idea.
Edit: I like an idiot couldn’t help myself and actually read some of this.
Is this an 11 year old?
Stopped reading after the first paragraph.
He waits till the last paragraph to admit that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, which is weird given that he still published all the dumb shit he said in the preceding paragraphs.
Yep.
“a clown show of a company”
Wow, I’m sure this will be a good and unbiased article! /s
What is it with people who think everything they don’t like should be illegal? Have you never read a history book? Authoritarianism is bad mmkay
But preservation is good.
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.
Why is everyone so mad about this? I mean, it’s a salty article, but yeah, it kinda sucks when publications don’t give notice before closing down. I think providing the public, including previous contributors, time to archive content is a good practice.
It’s a good practice, sure. But as per the headline, the author wants to make it a law. That’s why people are not having it.
That’s not really what the article is about. The author even concedes that such a law would never, and perhaps never should, happen; rather, he feels that corporations will not adopt best practices of preservation unless compelled, and it pisses him off.
The title is deliberate hyperbolic. He’s clearly pissed.
, it’s a salty article
Actually the author himself is somewhat harmed by this situation. I would be salty too. When I wish to write my CV, I can say: my text have been published at X and Y. Especially nice if it’s an important and well known publication. Now a part of his CV is literally erased, he can’t access his own texts anymore (not even on Internet Archive). That’s… utterly ridiculous. It’s a common practice to send the author a copy (or multiple) of the text he has published, he has every right to own a copy of them. Now the copy that was intended to be available to everyone is not available even to him. Something of the sort really has happened to me too when a website I published an article on a site underwent a redesign and now the text just isn’t available anymore. Admittedly it’s still on IA, but it’s an awkward situation.
Why wouldn’t you save a copy if it’s so important to you?
What do you mean by “saving a copy”? I still have the .doc file somewhere in my emails. If I told you I’m a serious published writer, and then you asked me where you can read my texts, and I sent you a .doc that hasn’t been proofread, would you take me seriously?
Yeah, right? I mean, imagine if YouTube when down and just deleted all the videos. People would be up and arms demanding legislative action. There would be endless lawsuits.
As a creative, you rely on platforms to not obliterate your stuff. At least not immediately. This guy has a horse in the race of this site.
Maybe the Web should look more like Freenet or like BitTorrent.
But using a technology working the known way and trying to force conveniences by law seems sisyphean and harmful in many aspects.
If someone wants to keep old versions, let them. But forcing companies to host something is I dunno.
This is a strawman towards the actual issue which is the loss of information.
The least they could do is just provide a copy of their material to internet archive or some torrent site.
I think similarly about digital services stopping or hardware no longer getting support. Thats a fine and reasonable economy wise but at least have the moral decency to open source it instead.
The customer always gets screwed and the company somehow gets to keep the money. This case is slightly different, i don’t know if you had to pay for access but my sentiment of future use holds.
Look into maidsafe.
The site is atrocious. I’ll look at it another time and try to get what it’s really about. But it seems really ADHD-hostile.
It’s a complicated matter if we consider things such as the GDPR’s “Right to be forgotten”.
Corporations shouldn’t have those kinds of rights.
Or maybe writers should just archive their own work. So they can make it available on the Internet Archive when their work becomes inaccessible.
