In any sane world not completely captured by corporate interests, the game would already be in the public domain after 25 years. The harm is non-existent.

> Clearly if it was able to be leaked it already was being preserved

Preserved by whom? Many leaks are done by old or ex-employees who quietly kept a shall we say 'backup' of their work. More than one 'official' re-release has been rumored to be an embarrassed company quietly filing the serial numbers off a rogue leak because they realized way too late that their archival practices were inadequate.

It’s, what, 25 years old? There have been many sequels, prequels, remastering. The economic benefits of this IP are largely exhausted; that it is now leaked to the commons isn’t an alarming thing.

Crowdsourcing the preservation means the one UND ONLY ONE copy can't be destroyed by fire, flood, disk failure, ransomware, whatever else.

copyright infringement is awesome

It's been twenty years. The game should be in the public domain.

Copyrights were only intended to be secure for a _limited_ time. Originally 20 years. Konami has been granted at least 2 decades of FBI backed security of their property. I'd say they got a plenty good deal and have nothing to complain about here.

because intellectual property laws are inherently worthy of respect and they are never used against consumers ever

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> It is shameful that such a publication tries and celebrate copyright infringement like this.

Oh no.

Anyway.