Subj : A Digital Ark For The End of The World
To   : All
From : warmfuzzy
Date : Sat Sep 03 2022 18:57:14

In the past several years various different groups have noticed a need to archive their media in case of some sort of disaster.  Home servers have been moved to network servers.  MAME ROM archives (ROM game file images) have been easier to acquire. Furthermore, with war and financial hardship we want to keep our media and not have it break or deteriorate.  The original purposes for starting PHATstar was to archive media that might otherwise be lost to time, along with the idea for a Bible study using those materials just mentioned. Archiving is permitted legally if it is for a historical backup, so archiving tones of stuff and using them for fun and good times may not be quite proper, you see if its just an archive then no company is loosing out on profits, but if a person uses, lets say MAME ROMs, and there is a fancy new 30-in-1 game cartridge that has just come out, then those games that you play from the ROM archive would have to not include those games that have been made available for sale again.

This is something to think about anyways, if you think the stuff is really going to hit the fan and you value culture and society then it might be prudent to make an archive of your own, hide it very very well and someone might find it in decades or centuries to come.  Preserving the historical record is a noble task.  Good luck!

Cheers!
-wf

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