{"id":240225,"date":"2026-07-03T06:04:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/even-hideo-kojima-is-afraid-that-digital-data-will-no-longer-be-owned-by-individuals-and-that-access-to-art-that-we-love-may-suddenly-be-cut-off"},"modified":"2026-07-03T06:04:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:04:48","slug":"even-hideo-kojima-is-afraid-that-digital-data-will-no-longer-be-owned-by-individuals-and-that-access-to-art-that-we-love-may-suddenly-be-cut-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/even-hideo-kojima-is-afraid-that-digital-data-will-no-longer-be-owned-by-individuals-and-that-access-to-art-that-we-love-may-suddenly-be-cut-off","title":{"rendered":"Even Hideo Kojima is afraid that \u2018digital data will no longer be owned by individuals\u2019 and that access to art that we love \u2019may suddenly be cut off\u2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/even-hideo-kojima-is-afraid-that-digital-data-will-no-longer-be-owned-by-individuals-and-that-access-to-art-that-we-love-may-suddenly-be-cut-off.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commission considers that at this stage it cannot propose a legal obligation to keep videogames playable after they stop being provided commercially. This is due, also, to existing intellectual property rights. Under EU copyright law, rights holders enjoy exclusive rights over their creations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Players are (quite rightly) worried that without physical media their beloved games, or any kind of art, can be ripped away from them at a moment\u2019s notice. \u201cWe will not be able to freely access the movies, books, and music that we have loved,\u201d Kojima adds. \u201cI would be a have-not. That\u2019s what I\u2019m afraid of. This is not greed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Commission considers that at this stage it cannot propose a legal obligation to keep videogames playable after they stop being provided commercially. This is due, also, to existing intellectual property rights. Under EU copyright law, rights holders enjoy exclusive rights over their creations.\u201d Players are (quite rightly) worried that without physical media their beloved [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1496,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-law","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}