triverse
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In Topic: Read Old Video Game Magazines Online?
Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:19 AM
KiwiArcader, on Sat Jan 21, 2012 12:39 AM, said:
triverse, on Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:20 PM, said:
Scratch my recommendation of Retromags. They use MegaUpload for their distribution service and well, MU just got shot down recently. You can always check out Out-of-Print Archive (http://www.outofprintarchive.com) for legal releases that we have permission from the copyright owners to make available (i.e., they won't be taken down like other sites).
With regard to that comment I think you probably should have said "The copyright owners of the mags OoPA has wouldn't request their removal".
The reality is that if the Feds took down Filesonic or any other hosting company like they did with Megaupload then your files, even though they may be legal, would still be taken offline if they were hosted on their servers. Retromags and OGM, like many others simply had their files disappear as we had chosen megaupload as our preferred file hosting company. I am getting my magazine submissions uploaded to Filesonic at the present time .... the latest mags are already available again over at OGM ... but if they take more hosting companies out of the game then things will get problematic for everyone whether legitimate or not.
You are right Kiwi. I should have worded that better, it was mainly to bring attention to the fact that Retromags, the biggest site that offers magazine scans, is effectively dead in the water thanks to the situation with MegaUpload.
My comment about OoPA just means that if more file hosting sites are taken down, that we would have a much easier time hosting them elsewhere. This is for such cases as, maybe file sharing companies end up requiring proof that you can release what you are uploading- OoPA can do that. We can also, if worst come to worst, offer self hosting to our fanbase without fear of legal rebuttal. OoPA doesn't do that for the same reasons no one else, including RM, doesn't do it- costs.
