Copyright trolling kept evidence of Japanese cult classic Cookie's Bustle offline, until now

You may not have heard of Cookie's Bustle. That's partly because it's an obscure Japanese point-and-click released by a small studio called Rodik in 1999. It's also because of the efforts of a copyright troll, who kept playthrough videos, screenshots, fan art, and even Discord mentions of Cookie's Bustle offline for years.

Cookie's Bustle has finally been brought to light thanks to the efforts of the Video Game History Foundation, which recently documented its victory in preserving Cookie's...