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Digital preservation thoughts
Image credit:Adult Swim Games
Image credit:Adult Swim Games
In further confirmation that one can never truly own digital media, Warner Bros. Discovery has decided to “retire” 2016’s noodling around puzzle gameSmall Radios Big Televisions- meaning it’ll disappear off storefronts in the next 60 days. Developer Owen Deeryrevealed this news on Xittera couple of days ago, simultaneously announcing that the game is nowfree to download. Deery also noted you can buy the synthy soundtrackto show support.
This is seemingly part of WB pulling a bunch of Adult Swim Games games (which they now own in one of those cascading business buyout things). In an interviewwith Game DeveloperDeery called it “kind of depressing”, and said that “when you’re working with purely digital products nothing is going to stay around for very long.”
It feels like now, because the entities who have access to the delete button are solely concerned with profit, the onus for preservation is more and more on the collectiveus, and I’m not sure how well that’s going to go in the long term. For one thing, can we just back upeverything? But for another, when things like this disappear not many people notice, in part because it’s happening so much now. Thank godFred Durst was saved, at any rate, even if it was an accident.
