Sailing the High Seas Could Become the Only Way to 'Own' a Game, Per Game Preservation Expert
Things are looking bleak for physical media. Frank Cifaldi, founder of the game preservation and dissemination non-profit Video Game History Foundation, has said that piracy remains the only viable way to truly own a game and keep it under one's control as companies abandon game discs and push toward locked‑down digital ecosystems.
Cifaldi was responding to a Bluesky post in which a user argued that "piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now." Cifaldi agreed, expressing a touch of professional exasperation at the industry's refusal to offer a "meaningful alternative" to piracy.
As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.
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