This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own.

  • @pikmeir@lemmy.world
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    09 months ago

    No, this is because YouTube compresses every file before distributing it. This happens even when downloading on the creator side.

    • @doctorcrimson
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      09 months ago

      Literally every file distribution method compresses the media first. A better argument was that YouTube re-encodes the video during the re-upload with a particularly lossy method to save on bandwidth and server space.