Thread:RRabbit42/@comment-1279469-20130614075537/@comment-961279-20130615151253

Disney would have the game removed on the basis of "We created the game and we decided to not make it available any more. You are not authorized to put that game on your website."

Companies look at information as disposable products that are available only for a certain period of time. Large entertainment companies will often have their own archive department to keep what's no longer available, but that's not available to the general public.

It's the same thing historians face. How much history is lost because the original people involved with it don't think it's important any more. We're historians of a sort, with the difference of trying to keep the information available immediately so that years down the road we don't have to see what fragments we can dig up and try to piece together the larger picture.