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日本も田舎ではアニメが放送されていないので、みな海賊版で楽しんでいましたよ。 正規品が当たり前になったのは配信サイトが普及したここ10年くらいでしょう。 日本のオタク文化も海賊版と共にあります。 日本人の意見がみなさんと違うのは、我々が昔の事を忘れてしまったからです。

maybe it's lost in translation, but another shocker besides japanese people not thinking games are worth preserving, is that they don't consider games or form of art

maybe it's lost in translation, but another shocker besides japanese people not thinking games are worth preserving, is that they don't consider games or form of art

Umineko EP 01 + Tea Party I’ll be blunt. Long story short, I was bored about 80% of the time. The only moments I found interesting were the crime-solving aspects—and that’s it. I don’t know what this story is trying to tell me. Were the murders really done by the witch?

This might be a simple misunderstanding. '芸術/アート' in Japanese is narrower than 'art' in English — it excludes pop culture. Anime and manga fall under 'pop culture' rather than '芸術.' So in Japan too, games would be considered part of what 'art' encompasses in English.

People want a return to Showa era Godzilla but then wuss out at the first sign of Sci-Fi

The idea that Japanese people don't think games are worth preserving is either misinformed or a cultural misunderstanding. I can't speak for other countries, but in Japan, copyright law gives rights holders unilateral control over when, how, and to what extent their works are made available. Given that, it's clear that the right to preserve a work belongs to the rights holder — and Japanese people respect that. This is because in Japan, the rights holder and the creator are very often one and the same, which means respecting the rights holder is respecting the creator. I know what's coming if I write this: "fuck the law," "art has the right to transgress," "you're just a tamed sheep." But that's simply how the system is structured in Japan. With that said, NPOs, university organizations, and incorporated associations in Japan are currently working to make legal preservation of games possible by non-rights-holding organizations. There are even Diet members actively pushing for this — one of whom was elected with the backing of Japanese gamers. In Japan, the prevailing view is that game preservation should be made possible through proper legal channels. It's only when this is overlooked, deliberately dismissed, or viewed through some strange bias that the puzzling conclusion emerges that Japanese people don't think games are worth preserving.

西側の人達、これって本当ですか⁉︎? 本当だったらかなり驚きだけど、私もゲームを「アート」と呼ぶ人達が多い事を昨日から不思議に思ってたから、腑には落ちる。