At 10:23 AM 11/23/2001 -0800, you wrote:
Why is the fact that a thief made money at something the deciding factor?
At this point I think the creativity and originality is what should be
rewarded with our memory. And the original artists should have their own
place unsullied by the copy cats.
It's got to be documented because it's still history. But it should not be
documented without providing a reference to the original work, not
something you can do when it's just a raw ROM image.
The problem with knockoffs is confusion on the public as to what the
original is.
For instance, on Music City Morpheus sometimes I see Animals songs listed
as Doors songs because the people doing the categorization do not know what
the original is. It's just a file that's been kicking around for so long
from peer to peer.
That's what I dislike the most about ROM trading, that the filename becomes
the only classification of the game. It really doesn't serve history very
well.
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