The Electronic Frontier Foundation's self-described mission is written as this:
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows."
While I haven't personally been in the loop with the dealings of the EFF, one plan that they have got in the works has me very interested. The EFF wants to make it legal for gamers, specifically modders, to revitalize defunct or offline titles. Considering the huge number of dead games now in the gaming industry's history, it seems like a huge waste to let all that content just fall by the wayside. This will be achieved through the EFF getting an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. These games are described as titles "that are no longer supported by the developer, and that require communication with a server."
The EFF wants to have these games revived in an attempt to offer "continued play, preservation, research, or study." For most of us, the important words here are "continued play," but that doesn't lessen the importance of research. Many games that are now defunct probably survived in a time where society was quite different, so it'd be interesting to see them thrust into the new generation of gaming.
Would you be excited for something like this? Let us know in the comments section below.
