Historian Tells Developers to "Steal From Work"

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Historian Tells Developers to "Steal From Work"

Added: 05.03.2015 11:09 | 12 views | 0 comments

IGN: Speaking at the 2015 Game Developers Conference, Jason Scott of Internet Archive offered unique advice to a crowd of game industry professionals. "Steal from work," he joked. Workplace theft is the future of game history. Scott clarified that he wasn't advocating the pick-pocketing of intellectual property. Rather, he emphasized that important fragments of our video game heritage would have been lost without materials preserved by game company employees who took home mementos from their projects.