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As far as the ESA and its members are concerned, video games are just products and their availability is a product decision. There's a reason they release remasters, remakes, and even totally unrelated games with identical titles: they want to replace older products that don't match their current branding and product strategies. They want players playing the new thing that aligns with their marketing priorities. They don't care what it does for games studies, and if anything they'd rather that even people studying games get forced into only paying attention to whatever their current strategy is.


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in reply to @dog's post:

You've already been answered and you probably already found it, but ESA is the association that used to organize and profit from the E3 event.

What I'm wondering is why right now this organization holds power of veto in congressional decisions, and supported by no other than a guy related to DVDs and Blue-Rays copyright, if I'm reading well the AACS acronym.

After ESA stopping their most public and notorious activity, the E3 fair, what do they even keep doing to have such privilege? I thought they might be related to age ratings, but no. Apparently these people will just send a cease and desist to your ass under command.

And I guess the AACS still has some influence being a standard in the architecture of the physical disc market, though I see more and more crates of discarded, unsold video game boxes at my outlet supermarket.

I don't think physical market of video games will completely dissapear any time soon, nor I want that to happen, truth to be said. But isn't stupid to leave the weight of the history of video games, of that craft, in the shoulder of such biased and apparently declining organizations?

What I'm wondering is why right now this organization holds power of veto in congressional decisions

The US has a system where every few years, the librarian of congress is able to establish specific limited exemptions to the DMCA. These are often targeted at preservation organizations. There are public hearings and comments as a part of this; because the ESA represents all the megapublishers, it's one of the organizations that was invited to comment in the current set of hearings for the next set of DMCA exemptions.

No problem! Pretty much, except that they don't yet have a bare minimum to share - these are the hearings for the next round of rules that haven't been decided on yet. So the ESA's goal is to try to present literally any exemption for research as unacceptable to try and keep any new exemptions from being granted.