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This is where the argument that piracy is also preserving games stands up. Although, it begs the question why games developers do not properly archive their software.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Watch it get found by an employee in a personal backup and then later get fired (like what happened with Toy Story 2) or get into trouble for "inappropriate copying of company property" or something similiar

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I mean, the woman who had the toy story 2 backup did get fired like 25 years later. That is a quarter of a century.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

For the rest of the world that's equal to 10 kg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

She was also the producer for Lightyear, which imo was not a very good movie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

But but but UFOs.

[–] yeather 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, she was fired like over 20 years later. How are those events even connected?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah. I mean credit where credit is due, but saving a project once doesn't give you a lifetime get out of future screwups pass. It might give you leniency on the next few projects you worked on, but it's been years at this point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It should probably also be mentioned that she was laid off, not fired.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

But thats not the reason she was fired though.